The University of California at Berkeley has a pristine academic reputation. Smart students go there. Unfortunately, the institution's leaders made a dumb decision that it—and possibly its students—will be paying for dearly.

Memorial Stadium needed an upgrade. Not just to please boosters who had a desire to keep up with the Joneses. The stadium needed to be retrofitted, California's way of saying they needed to fix the stadium so it can withstand the Big One. 

Cal not only retrofitted the stadium, it built a new athletic facility. The stadium cost $321 million and the athletic center cost $153 million, according to ...

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