adopts new emergency resolution for separate athletics department fee : for D-IA


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ASG adopts new emergency resolution for separate athletics department fee

By Clayton Medford
The University Star

http://star.txstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1277&Itemid=50

COLLEGE CAMPAIGN: 428th District Court judicial candidate Bill Henry speaks to the Associated Student Government during Monday night’s meeting. Henry, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry, is running against Anna Martinez Boling.


The Associated Student Government adopted an emergency resolution on Monday, urging the university administration to remove athletic department funding from the student service fee and implement a separate intercollegiate athletic service fee.

Additionally, the resolution puts pressure on the football program to move to Division 1-A by suggesting a 50 percent cut in the intercollegiate athletic service fee after five years if the entire athletic department is not at that level. The only program in the department not currently competing at the Division 1-A level is the football program.

While most of the text of the legislation authored by ASG President Jordan Anderson focuses on the Division 1-A aspect of the referendum, much of the debate among senators centered on the fiscal burden the athletic department places on the student service fee.

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