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  I do not believe the consistently empty stands indicate the that the
students do not care about the football team but rather its the logistics
of the off-campus stadium. I remember attending games at the old stadium on
campus and the stadium was always packed. I have never understood why the
decision was made to put the new stadium off-campus. I think the old one
should have torn down to make way for a new one. There would be no problem
with empty stands if games were held on campus.

Mary

At 09:47 AM 4/26/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>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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Mary Coleman
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