Athletics Fee Increase

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Facebook Group Opposes Fee Hike

This just came to me via FB, FYI. Tyler Riggs, BTW, is a JCOM grad, former HJ reporter and editor, and now is on KVNU and KUSU.
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Tyler Riggs sent a message to the members of Say NO to an athletics fee increase at USU.
Subject: Please spread the word about the fee increase proposal

Hello everyone, thank you for taking interest in saying NO to an athletics fee increase at USU.

I promise not to flood you with messages in the coming weeks before the student vote, but I will send along some pertinent information as it becomes available about the issue and supporting reasons about why we need to vote no on the increase.

For now, however, please pass along word of this group to your friends on Facebook and also talk about the fee increase with people you know off Facebook. Like any election, the result of this vote is going to come down to who gets the most voters out to the polls. Unfortunately for us, the pro fee increase vote has the luxury of making announcements at sporting events, distributing a newsletter at sporting events and access to student groups throughout campus to promote the effort.

We must be more guerrilla and evangelize as best we can.

In the next few weeks, I will have USU Athletics Director Scott Barnes on KVNU radio to talk about the fee increase, and I will let you all know about the date when it happens. We will ask tough questions and attempt to expose many of the frauds in the talking points that are being used, such as saying athletics may have to "drop out of Division 1" if this fee increase isn't approved.

I also will attempt to set up an on-campus debate regarding the fee increase. Also, we need to get letters in the Statesman and the Herald Journal about the increase, because awareness is by and large low right now.

Thank you again, everyone, for taking interest in stopping this injustice of a fee increase from becoming a reality.
--Tyler Riggs
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