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Toys for jocks: Gross misallocation of needed university funds
Phil Elder
Issue date: 2/27/08 Section: Opinion
Yet through the infinite wisdom of ASCSU, without even seeing any documentation regarding allocation of these funds, eight figures have now been given to the most academically useless entity on the entire campus, so that we may impart the message to incoming students "you might get cancer, but you're going to look damned good doing it."
Who's paying for this new remodeling? Not the senators, the vast majority of whose parents are paying their way through college (who else has time to devote 6 hours to useless bantering on campus every Wednesday?), but the students. More than a 100 percent increase in campus recreation funds, every semester for 30 years.
I love the Rec. Center. I'm there every day. And to be perfectly honest I would thoroughly appreciate a rock wall and a sauna to augment my enjoyment thereof.
But not at this cost. I cannot condone the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars on toys while dorms are falling apart, half of the class buildings have volatile bacteria thriving within their walls and tuition is driving the lower income students out of the university and into forced repayment of their loans.
And I am very, very severely disappointed in my fellow ASCSU members that somehow think that this university needs a rock wall more than safety from infectious disease and affordable tuition for the other students -- those whose family money doesn't glide them through their higher education.
Phil Elder is a senior political science major and an ASCSU senator for the College of Liberal Arts. His column appears Tuesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.
Who's paying for this new remodeling? Not the senators, the vast majority of whose parents are paying their way through college (who else has time to devote 6 hours to useless bantering on campus every Wednesday?), but the students. More than a 100 percent increase in campus recreation funds, every semester for 30 years.
I love the Rec. Center. I'm there every day. And to be perfectly honest I would thoroughly appreciate a rock wall and a sauna to augment my enjoyment thereof.
But not at this cost. I cannot condone the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars on toys while dorms are falling apart, half of the class buildings have volatile bacteria thriving within their walls and tuition is driving the lower income students out of the university and into forced repayment of their loans.
And I am very, very severely disappointed in my fellow ASCSU members that somehow think that this university needs a rock wall more than safety from infectious disease and affordable tuition for the other students -- those whose family money doesn't glide them through their higher education.
Phil Elder is a senior political science major and an ASCSU senator for the College of Liberal Arts. His column appears Tuesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.
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