No more ridiculous fees are necessary
I apologize for not including the field hockey team in my comments. But regardless of which team is playing on that field is irrelevant (“Field hockey player thinks athletics fee is good idea,” Friday).
During a budget crisis, we don’t need to expand or refurbish anything on the sports complex, redo carpets in the classrooms or try to add a new varsity sport. CMU couldn’t predict a budget deficit such as this, but when they built the new stadium, CMU should have put money aside to refurbish the turf because they knew that it would eventually deteriorate. But they didn’t invest any money for the future of Kelly/Shorts Stadium, and now Deromedi wants freshmen/transfer students to pay for it?
Why don’t you pay? You aren’t going to be charged since you’re a senior. I imagine that its OK with you. Why don’t you write a $200 check to CMU and send a copy to the paper so we can see how much you care.
To your response on the Library Fee, SAC Fee and Programming Fee, these fees benefit the each student individually. How is returfing the Kelly/Short Stadium going to benefit CMU students on an individual level? Students go to school to take classes and learn. The library is a wonderful resource, along with the computer system that gives us an incredible amount of ability to do research.
Finally, I would like to say that our tuition is already up 40 percent compared to 10 years ago, and the average cumulative student loan debts for last fall were $15,938 (Central Michigan Life, Friday). When is this going to stop? It should stop now; no more ridiculous fees are needed.
