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NOT A SIMPLE FEE (Honolulu Advertiser article)
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/201...e_fee.html

EXERPT

When the University of North Texas sought a multi-million-dollar infusion to help bolster the future of its athletic program, instead of turning to rich oilmen or well-heeled cattle barons, UNT first approached its students.

The willingness of the 36,000-member student body to accept a $10 per credit hour athletic fee will add nearly $8 million annually to the potential Western Athletic Conference member's coffers beginning in 2011, enough to get construction of the Mean Green's new 30,000-seat on-campus stadium under way.

Increasingly, major college athletic programs have gone to their students, a movement the University of Hawaii-Manoa is a late arrival to as it contemplates becoming the last school in the nine-member WAC to implement such a fee.

A proposal to assess Manoa students $50 per semester, raising nearly $2 million a year for UH's financially challenged athletic program, is on the Board of Regents' Thursday agenda.

But unlike UNT, where students voted 58.1 percent to 41.9 percent to accept the fee, UH is asking the regents to impose the fee, which has consistently been opposed by Associated Students of UH leaders.

"ASUH is strongly opposed to the proposed athletic fee because of the unclear process of student consultation, the timing of the proposal and the lack of student support for the fee," ASUH president Andrew K. Itsuno said in an e-mail.

(07-12-2010 10:42 AM)MG61 Wrote:  Posted on gomeangreen.com by UNTFlyer.

NOT A SIMPLE FEE (Honolulu Advertiser article)
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/201...e_fee.html

EXERPT

When the University of North Texas sought a multi-million-dollar infusion to help bolster the future of its athletic program, instead of turning to rich oilmen or well-heeled cattle barons, UNT first approached its students.

The willingness of the 36,000-member student body to accept a $10 per credit hour athletic fee will add nearly $8 million annually to the potential Western Athletic Conference member's coffers beginning in 2011, enough to get construction of the Mean Green's new 30,000-seat on-campus stadium under way.

Increasingly, major college athletic programs have gone to their students, a movement the University of Hawaii-Manoa is a late arrival to as it contemplates becoming the last school in the nine-member WAC to implement such a fee.

A proposal to assess Manoa students $50 per semester, raising nearly $2 million a year for UH's financially challenged athletic program, is on the Board of Regents' Thursday agenda.

But unlike UNT, where students voted 58.1 percent to 41.9 percent to accept the fee, UH is asking the regents to impose the fee, which has consistently been opposed by Associated Students of UH leaders.

"ASUH is strongly opposed to the proposed athletic fee because of the unclear process of student consultation, the timing of the proposal and the lack of student support for the fee," ASUH president Andrew K. Itsuno said in an e-mail.

Is there any good reason to read into this part or is it just more idle chatter?

(07-12-2010 01:07 PM)topper1296 Wrote:  

(07-12-2010 10:42 AM)MG61 Wrote:  Posted on gomeangreen.com by UNTFlyer.

NOT A SIMPLE FEE (Honolulu Advertiser article)
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/201...e_fee.html

EXERPT

When the University of North Texas sought a multi-million-dollar infusion to help bolster the future of its athletic program, instead of turning to rich oilmen or well-heeled cattle barons, UNT first approached its students.

The willingness of the 36,000-member student body to accept a $10 per credit hour athletic fee will add nearly $8 million annually to the potential Western Athletic Conference member's coffers beginning in 2011, enough to get construction of the Mean Green's new 30,000-seat on-campus stadium under way.

Increasingly, major college athletic programs have gone to their students, a movement the University of Hawaii-Manoa is a late arrival to as it contemplates becoming the last school in the nine-member WAC to implement such a fee.

A proposal to assess Manoa students $50 per semester, raising nearly $2 million a year for UH's financially challenged athletic program, is on the Board of Regents' Thursday agenda.

But unlike UNT, where students voted 58.1 percent to 41.9 percent to accept the fee, UH is asking the regents to impose the fee, which has consistently been opposed by Associated Students of UH leaders.

"ASUH is strongly opposed to the proposed athletic fee because of the unclear process of student consultation, the timing of the proposal and the lack of student support for the fee," ASUH president Andrew K. Itsuno said in an e-mail.

Is there any good reason to read into this part or is it just more idle chatter?

Chuck Neinas of Neinas Sports Services, a Colorado-based athletic consulting firm, and a former Big Eight commissioner, said, "most (major) colleges have some form of athletic fee."

Lindsay McCluskey, vice president of the U.S. Student Association in Washington, D.C., said student fees in several areas, including athletics, have become more prevalent as university funding has declined.

"We are definitely opposed to any kind of assessment on students, in this case for athletics," McClauskey said.

Students at several California state schools have recently voted down student fee proposals, only to have them overridden and fees implemented by university presidents at San Diego State and Fresno State.

I wasn't asking about the fee. I was refering to the part I bolded about the potential WAC memebership.

(07-12-2010 01:29 PM)topper1296 Wrote:  I wasn't asking about the fee. I was refering to the part I bolded about the potential WAC memebership.

UNT has no interest in joining the WAC.