CSULB's elections gives students the opportuniy to not only vote for ASI leaders, but to pass a referendum that would recommend President F. King Alexander to issue an $86 student activity fee to reinstate a 49er football team able to compete in the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
(A Press Telegram article regarding the return of a LBSU football team can be found here: http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_17389448 )
The ballot 1 measure, along with bringing back the CSULB football team, would also advocate establishing women's lacrosse, crew and field hockey teams also capable of competing in the NCAA league.
If the measure passed, and CSULB did revive the 49er football team, The $86 fee would occur over the course of five years. Students would first pay an extra $25 dollars the initial semester, $17 the next and so on, decreasing year by year, according to business finance major Jason Aula.
Here's CSULB's own broadcast covering the football referendum:
Aula, who began the proposition to bring back CSULB's football team, said the effort of the footbal revival was "by students for students." The business finances major added that the community of CSULB could benefit through social intergration with the addition of several new school teams. Comparing Cal State Long Beach's sense of acedemic and athletic prestige to other universities, Aula asked "Why shouldn't CSULB have (a football team)?"
Aula's blog, http://bringback49erfootball.blogspot.com/, provides information revolving around the proposition.
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