Proposition 1: raising student fees by $10.75/credit hour, more than doubling the current rate. Also known as Proposition: "We need a better football team."
It's not that I'm against funding athletics. I just don't actually, you know, have the money to fund athletics. And if the other 17,000 students at UCO find themselves in the same boat, then a few extra hundred dollars a semester probably matters.
Maybe if the money were going to the library, or to improving seats in that awkward stadium-seating room in the Mass Comm building, or to building more parking lots - maybe then I'd think a little differently. But "athletics" sounds so vague, and so unlikely to benefit my interests.
I voted no. But then, I'm graduating.
I do wish the question weren't so difficult to find on the uconnect. One student senator in my linguistics class told us last week that the link to vote would replace the picture of the week for a day, but I guess image space was just too precious to forfeit to Proposition 1. Good form, UCO?
I agree that funding athletics is the wrong use for a tuition rate hike. We should fund education first, and sports second.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I cannot afford to pay $10.75 MORE a credit hour raising it to $19 something.
ReplyDeleteIf they would've wanted to increase it A LITTLE, I maybe would have considered it, but more than doubling, with most of it going to athletics, NOOOO WAY!