Editor,
There has been a lot of talk about the proposed student athletic facilities.
Students are getting excited and are failing to look at the reality of the situation. I graduated in 2009, and I can tell you that the University has been in talks for this since my junior year.
UNM is trying to make this sound like an amazing facility that is necessary for the school, when in reality the school is strapped for cash and already has a gym that is above and beyond other universities’ gyms. If you don’t believe me, Google some other schools and check out their “gyms.”
The reality is that if this is approved, tuition will go up to pay for a facility that won’t be built until well after paying students graduate.
The University will say that it won’t be, but it will work it in to “student fees,” or some other portion of tuition. The school is run by a nepotistic president who is paying unqualified people hundreds of thousands of dollars to run the University.
The New York Times recently called UNM a “failure factory.” The reason is that there is only an 11 percent graduation rate after four years and 44 percent after six years.
Instead of working on dismal graduation rates by offering more class sections and paying more faculty members, the University chooses to use funds to help its failing sports program.
On the East Coast, people know UNM only as the place with “that soccer girl” and “the football coach who keeps getting in trouble.”
Instead of a gym, UNM needs to pull itself out of the “failure factory” category and improve its academic program.
Vote “no” on this proposed gym and help move toward making the University use funds to make degrees more valuable.
Christina Tedeschi
UNM alumna
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