Dear Editor,
So, $500,000 was spent on a Carrie Underwood concert. That’s cool that she came to ETSU and put on a good show, but how does one governing body (that’s not the U.S.) overspend by more than $228,000? Because of this debt the fall concert was canceled. Bummer. And now because of the “dire financial situation facing the university,” there will be no spring concert as well. Mega-bummer.
It’s not the fact that the ETSU students don’t get a fall or spring concert, and it’s not the fact that the world is in such a downward spiral financially and otherwise that we don’t get a concert. The fact is that any student who attends ETSU pays a fee specifically to a fund to provide the students a major event every semester. As stated in the East Tennessean in the Thursday, Oct. 30 edition by our grand SGA President TJ “all monies allotted for the spring 2009 concert will be held over this fiscal year and totally devoted to and combined with next year’s budget for student activities.”
So if this is the case, how is our not hosting a major event this semester helping with the dire financial situation? If ETSU was in that dire of a situation, it would be understandable to spend that money on keeping the university running in whole, but since we’re not in a depression yet and the state and university seem to have a hold on things, it’s pretty upsetting that the SGA is blowing off the student body with shady excuses and simply “holding” our money for another semester.
– Holly Dillon

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