That's true, they did only vote against an athletic fee and not to do away with football. It is also true that students do not want to pay any more fees. I think in this case, however, students might have voted to fund the football team if any of them actually cared about it. The consistently empty stands at the stadium tell us that students do not care about our football team. This vote, combined with other signs like the total lack of interest on the part of either the student body or the community as a whole, have (to my mind, rightly) led some of us to wonder whether the money being wasted on football might be better applied--to paying professors, or to repairing the slowly sinking library, or to actually BUYING BOOKS for the library, perhaps. 

Maybe another vote is needed, as you say. Then again, the administration has made it clear that they are using the student vote as merely an "advisory" tool, and may institute the fee regardless of what anyone else thinks. One has to wonder to what extent the administration is willing to listen to students' opinions.

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I just wanted to point out that the student vote was to not impose an
athletic fee ... the vote was not to keep or disband a football
program.  What student wants to pay more money for anything?  None
usually.  Just because the students voted against the fee doesn't mean that
they also want to get rid of the football program.  It would be a separate
vote that would determine that I believe ...

Raley

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