The Campus Conservative

When I was 27 years old, I decided to go back to college. I grew up in the Duval County school system in Jacksonville, Florida and was not that great of a student. However, I had some intelligence and learned some things since my high school days that made me think I could be better at schoolwork if I tried. So, I went back to school to earn a degree and win a job in a higher-paying field than the one I was in at the time. So I threw all my chips in, quit my job (!!) and went back to school.  However, when I began, I discovered a lot of things about myself that were keeping me from success. I didn’t enjoy college for a little bit. So with the start of a new semester, here are four lessons from my college career that helped me really enjoy my time in college.  First, know your focus for being in college.  When I returned to school, I knew my focus. I was there for grades. I wasn’t there for athletics, a social scene, fraternity, or anything else. I was laser-focused on wha...

  With the fall semester beginning soon, the question from the last semester remains: what’s going to happen with the athletics fee? Last semester, UT-Tyler Athletics Director Howard Patterson approached student government with a request to raise the mandatory fee from $240 dollars max per semester to $300 dollars max per semester. Student government did not put the fee on the spring ballot, but Patterson said he would return to request the increase in the future because the funding was important to the athletics program.  So will students have to consider a fee increase sometime this year? At this point, the future is unsure, but whatever happens, the position student government should take is clear, and it is this: student government should end all student funding for athletics. Here are three reasons why.  There's Little Benefit In Paying An Athletics Fee  The first reason why student government should abolish student funding for athletics is that the individual s...