LETTER: Pay for your own treadmill

Editor,

This letter is in response to the article about the gym in the Fieldhouse. According to a person quoted by The Statesman, he felt it was unfair that he pay $31 for a spouse card for his wife and not have her be able to use the facilities at the Fieldhouse. I pay $300 a year in fees as a student of the university. Considering his wife uses the same facilities as I do and pays far less, I get the feeling that I am paying for her and all the other spouses on campus. I thought the days of me paying for other people were over when I graduated from the public education system in Utah, where my parents and I paid for everyone who had a large family to go to school through the student fees at Layton High.

Way too many students at USU assume they can have their cake and eat it, too, especially after they get married. Last semester, I met several couples who had this mentality. They feel that the state of Utah, the federal government, and last but not lease, the students and faculty of USU should pay for them and their children, so that they can enjoy that cake. It is about high time the married students at USU wake up and smell the roses. Married life is not easy. During the first years, you are likely to be poor. My own parents were. The very first year they were married they didn’t have any money for a Christmas tree.

I am tired of being ripped off. I get to pay the fees so someone else can come in and use the treadmill I paid for. If you want a gym membership, buy one. Otherwise, do without.

Candace Leutzinger