$150 fee will help everyone
ASU is finally gaining national attention and prominence in academics, athletics, attracting students and professors from around the world. But we cannot take full advantage of this situation — and increase the quality and the value of our ASU education — without upgrading our woefully inadequate student facilities and programs.
That's what proposed $150 student fee will allow us to do, and it's WAY overdue.
This is not a small elite group of students who will benefit, but all students on every campus. The fee is intended to fund expansion and renovation of student facilities including the fire-ravaged Memorial Union, the Student Recreational Complex and the Student Health Facility. The fee will also fund similar facilities on ASU's other three campuses. Plus, more student-led programming will be made possible by new and upgraded facilities on all campuses.
The proposed fee is hard for some students to afford, but to do nothing hurts every single ASU student, now and for many years to come.
Nick Allen
Undergraduate
ASU snubbed in the BCS
Once again the Pac-10 falls victim to the BCS, this year it is OUR school and OUR team that was on the outside looking in. As co-Pac-10 champions we should have been in the BCS ahead of Kansas and Georgia, two teams that cannot stake a claim to any championship within their own conference. Even with one loss Kansas should have been left on the outside of the BCS, consider who they played outside the Big 12; Southeastern Louisiana, Toledo, Central Michigan, and Florida International; not exactly what makes an impressive resume. How many times will Pac-10 teams be snubbed before those in charge of the conference get tired of being passed over again and again? As a longtime ASU fan, a student, and future alum I ask of each of you that feel the same way write to President Crow and Lisa Love telling them that it is time to rid our conference of Tom Hansen, Pac-10 Commissioner. He is the reason "The Conference of Champions" is viewed by those east of the Rocky Mountains as a second rate conference. With the pathetic bowl tie-ins and lousy television contracts that prohibit two Pac-10 games to be televised at the same time that our conference and now our team draw criticism and apathy in its rankings time and time again.
As a lifelong valley resident I feel that the Fiesta did a tragic injustice to ASU, considering that John Junker and the Fiesta Bowl would not exist without former ASU Head Coach Frank Kush and Arizona State. As students we can voice our displeasure of the snub by not buying any Tostitos products or buying any product of a Fiesta Bowl or Insight Bowl sponsor.
Go Devils and Fork the Longhorns.
Paul Alexander
Undergraduate
