Can WSU afford to keep pouring millions into athletics while other departments shrink?

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WSU’s Martin Stadium, back when people — not cardboard cutouts — filled the stands.

Hundreds of unblinking, oversized, crimson-clad figures gaze down silently upon Martin Stadium in Pullman last November. Cardboard cutouts of celebrities, dogs and smiling alumni of all ages are packed into a couple small sections of the otherwise deserted football stands. Referees pull down their masks so they can blow their whistles between downs. Canned crowd noise hisses in the background, rising and falling in a surreal echo of another time.

Despite extraordinary efforts to keep competing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nov. 14 loss

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