The Sandspur

Issue date: 4/1/05 Section: Life & Times

In a recent meeting with the board of trustees, President Duncan and associates decided that the best way to boost interest in campus events and the school itself would be to add a football team to the Rollins family. The first step in creating this team would be to build a stadium.

The board agreed that a football stadium and team would be a revolutionary way to promote school spirit and pep. The problem they faced, however, was the issue of money.

Due to the recent downfall of endowments by Cornell, the Rollins community has found itself short on spending money. This proves a problem when the proposition of a project this size is brought to the table.

The solution, as President Duncan and associates determined, is simple: raise tuition. After consulting construction agencies in the area and developing a rough estimate, the amount of money needing to be raised was found to be well over $10 million.

As a result, the upcoming Fall 2005 semester tuition will be raised to the reasonable price of 60 grand. The small increase will have a positive effect on spending possibilities and allow for not only the construction of the stadium, but also the foundation for a new scholarship fund for incoming athletes to the football department.

The next item on the agenda for the board was where to place the stadium. The top two outstanding choices were the ever popular Mills Lawn, and the prospect of filling in Lake Virginia and expanding campus over its fifty five acres of land mass. The latter of the choices is the favorite for the upcoming project.

Board members, after the closing of the meeting, wandered campus asking the thoughts and comments from students on their way to class. "Most," Mikkeya Roskenberger, board member six, states, "were enthusiastic and hopeful. Not many seemed to care about the increase in tuition."

Some students, however, told a different story. Jimmy Jinkenson, after a meeting with Roskenberger, told a Slantspur reporter that he thinks the idea is "absurd." "Winter Park is not prepared to become a tailgate, football town this quickly," Jinkenson muses. "This isn't Gainesville."

The final decisions regarding the stadium and tuition increase will occur at the end of next week, followed by a public announcement to the school and the city of Winter Park. The Slantspur will cover any additional information that is presented to the Rollins community.

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