(04-08-2018 03:00 PM)McKinney Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 02:52 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  That is a strange way to look at it, because the student should not have his or her valid educational program options held hostage to a dumb athletic fee.

Well why should the tuition of an engineering student go towards supporting the gender studies department?

If the student felt that strongly about not supporting a specific program/arm of the university there are an absurd number of options. There are so many options it's probably physically impossible to apply to every school in the US on your own between the time that applications open and their deadline, let alone visit them. At an average cost of $37.88 per application at least it'd cost you $122,200.88 just to apply to the 3,226 4-year schools in America.

So maybe I'm "blaming the victim", but you should know what you're getting into. I will concede one could make an argument that an unexpected increase in fees while the student is still in school is unfair. But ultimately I'm not sure what you could do about that except lock your tuition as a freshman. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gender Studies and Engineering are both academic disciplines, football and soccer are not.