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Show opinion/ MONDAY MANUARY 9 » Football A7 a waste of your money § Ammon Van Orden Opinions Writer One of the major complaints with politicians is that they make fantastic promises, but tend to kee,p very few of them. For the handful of you who voted in last year's student elections you may have noticed (in-between the free popcorn and cotton candy) that one of President Jared Sumsion's campaign promises was to bring a football program to UVSC. He took his first step in completing this promise just prior to Christmas break during the PBA meeting. At which each department must present its financial needs. Jared and his fellow council members know that the administration would never approve a raise in tuition fora football team - so they went straight for the end ' zone by adding $45 to cost of student fees, in which student coun- . cil has almost no oversight. While I applaud Jared for being one of the few presidents to actually deliver on his promises, I'm afraid this is one ball thai should be dropped. Just as,a football team fields 11 players, so too have I listed my 11 Most Valuable Proofs against students paying for a football team. 1. First of all, even though we will start paying these hikes as early as summer semester, we won't see the team until at least 2008. So all of you juniors out there will be paying for the team with out seeing the fruits of your labors. 2. While we are on the subject chances of our football team playing a home game during its first year or two is slim to none. But if we do it will be played at Mountain View High School -1 thought we were trying to get away from the "Utah Valley High" image. 3. Tuition has been raised every year for several years now. Would it not make more sense for our student Government to 117 to shave our costs instead of raise them? 4. Title VI requires the school to spend a dollar for women's sports tor every dollar we spend on men's. That equals a lot o( money spent for a not-so-good-quality football program. 5. Some fantasize about a BYU vs. UVSC" football game. I'm sorry to break it to you but if they even fell sorry enough to let us play them we would lose and lose big. f personally am a bigger fan of winning. 6. I hate to break it to all of you Utah lovers, but there is not enough talent coming from within the state to field another quality team. The only real talent I could see us recruiting is the BYU players who were kicked out for rap- ing teenage girls or other lesser Honor Code violators. 7. If we are determined to raise fees $45, we might as well spend it on something worth while like a library with books or maybe a few more monoliths - one for each building creating a power conduit to the heavens. 8. It's a little known fact that very few football programs make the, school money. That includes every state school in Utah. 9. Not only are we paying for a jump in fees, but we would also have to pay ticket costs on top of that. That is if we ever played at home. 10. With that same $45 dollars I could go to a movie every week on Tuesday night at Movies 8 during the school year; plus an extra 15 times during the summer for the full price of a $1.50 ticket. 11. If you are hurting for more football go to Orem's Semi-Pro Football team. It's cheap and just watching the dance team alone is worth the price of admission. So 1 plead with President Sumsion, and the rest of the Student Council, to take one for the team and let this New Year's Resolution stay where it belongs - on a Fantasy Football league. Courteiy 9 raphk/sma rtdraw.com counterp Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded with guns ... because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall- you need me on that wall. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it ... I would rather you just say thank you. Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children. — Dwight D. Eisenhower —Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men TIMES now online. excefIence/accuracy/infec?rify |