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Show 'Optional' isn't whispering a sentence to the person on their ngh t. I he would whisper the sentence to the next t wou,d be around the circle to the original starting point. And great fun when the last person announced what he had been t . everybody would laugh because it was so corruptee and jnt.r different and senseless when compared to the original statement. Well welcome back to the party (or kindergarten)! This whole athletic funding thing has gotten entirely of nd curiously enough. As we remember it, the original question was one OPTIONAL athletic funding. Yes, OPTIONAL. Yet now that the athletic funding question is bogged dowr , ir . bureaucracy bureau-cracy and enlightened, rational committees, we never hear the wora 'optional' used anymore. . Optional athletic funding is the only reasonable and mutual Ma. way to solve the question. And the question ,s obviously an emo on a an dichotomous sort of thing. People tend to be e.t her fo or aga, st . At the base of the question is the issue of whether athletics are relevant anvthine anymore, and whether they are worth support. Opt 5 athletic funding is the only way to let every ,nd, vidua! concerned answer the question his own way. Let those wh want ,t pay for it, and let those who would spend their money elsewhe e m s den government do so. Where one single program, athletics, t k ic gigantic chunk out of a student's fees, five dollars per quarte , i only reasonable that the student have a choiceAnd we suspect ha given a choice, a great majority of students would choose to give their dole to athletics, both out of custom and out of desire. The issue here ,s not one of how much total money to give to athletics; the issue is the privilege of being given a choice in the matter. Another thing to remember: five dollars per student per quarter isn't all the athletic department presently has to live on. Not only does student government take five dollars and give it to athletics, but the administration ad-ministration takes some amount of money out of tuition and feeds it to athletics via the general fund. So our feeling is that, were student funding of athletics made optional , athletics would not suffer as much as everyone is inclined to imagine. Rather, athletics would be put into proper perspective as part of the total University. It would become an entity that exists in relationship to the demand for it, rather than being the monstrous and wasteful public relations organ sitting on the hill eating money like it was going out of style. So come on, bureaucracy and enlightened, rational committees; let's put the OPTIONAL back into athletic funding. Do that, or the issue will die, the same way William Calley has faded away and Attica has faded away, lost in committees. Or, one might ask, is that. really your purpose? |