No, I don’t suppose you’ll find this under Educational Mission on Washington State University’s welcome page, but students there are beginning to sense what’s up. Of course WSU’s athletics deficit is in the trillions, and of course they’re raising undergraduate student fees like mad and trying to fudge the numbers – that’s life in these here States.
But the question is whether WSU students will ever – in sufficient numbers – comprehend what’s being done to them. The grown-ups want to put on games. The young’uns don’t go to the games in great number. They have schoolwork. The grown-ups like to be invited to the president’s box during games, where they can get tipsy with him and talk money. The students wonder why they’re paying for the president’s box.
The sight of young people remonstrating with adults for the adults’ irresponsibility is strange and unseemly. But there you are.
As students and as an editorial board, we believe this proposed fee sets a precedent that students can be charged every time a university department goes into the red.
No matter how costly the fee, students should not have to pay extra due to poor budgeting by any department, let alone Athletics… [W]hy are students being asked to foot the bill for [the AD’s] budgeting decisions?… [W]hy is [he] spending money before he has cash in hand? … This fee does nothing to improve the education of WSU students, many of whom choose not to attend any sporting events and most of whom are not student athletes.
As an editorial board we believe imposing an athletic fee on the general student population is unfair to students and rewards financial irresponsibility. Schulz and Moos shouldn’t have to charge students to fix the Athletics deficit.
But sit tight, kiddies! We haven’t yet heard from the Cannabis and Liquor Board!
Other revenue sources included in the plan are doubled donations from the Cougar Athletic Fund by 2019, totaling $2 million in that year; beer sales in Martin Stadium, though the Liquor and Cannabis Board has yet to approve this; and increased single-game and season ticket sales for football and men’s basketball.
Once they approve beer sales (can marijuana be far behind?) you’ll forget about all your money worries.
In ten years or so, the university will be selling propofol at the games.
September 16th, 2016 at 1:36PM
someone’s gotta teach the kids how to shutdown a campus…
http://www.wnyc.org/story/one-football-season/