SRC Proposal

I read the proposal about what the new charging fees for using the SRC and the classed that they offer should be. Besides from the grammatical errors, I do agree with the argument being made. Students are being automatically charged for the use of the SRC and a good majority does not use it, so they end up paying for something that they are not putting to use. The people in charge of the charging fees should look at this proposal and make it happen. The writer makes many valid points about there are only a certain number of class and even smaller openings for them. An ASU student is a student first and a fitness buff second. The people in charge of the fees and classes should take into account that a lot of students have class and not everyone has the same schedule.

The writer does a great job in giving the reader actual facts and hard evidence about what should be done about the charging fees and the number of classes that they offer and when they should be offered. I think that the writer should have had actual quotes from students that use the SRC facilities and students that do not have the time to because it conflicts with their classes. Adding these testimonies probably would have made the argument much stronger.

In the paper, the writer interviewed the Campus Recreation Director, Tamra Garstka and she thinks that it would be a good idea to make these “combo packs” for students attending ASU and she also says why students get charged each semester and also makes a valid point that the staff have to get paid and they have to pay to maintain the SRC. The audience seems to care about her workers and maintaining the facilities and that is great, but making the “customers” happy should also be a main concern of hers as well. She shows a little bit of pathos, but enough for me to run to the SRC and join any classes. Plus, none of them would fit my schedule.

I would rate the author’s ethos a seven or eight. She makes a lot of valid points and has many sources to back up her claims. She has the Campus Recreation Director and quotes the Arizona Constitution about education and how that correlates to students staying fit and healthy. I am going to assume that the writer is an athlete or just like to work out in general and that is why she wrote about the fees and that there are not enough class openings for the fun activities that the SRC offers. So in my opinion, since she cares about her health and well-being, in a sense she is looking out for her fellow classmates.

From the assignment sheet proposal on Blackboard, she does a pretty good job in following what the assignment asks, but she did not have all the sources that would make her paper better. For the most part she gets her point across and also relates to other students that feel the same way about the classes and the fees that are offered at the SRC.

            The writer does use the Arizona Constitution as one of her stronger sources and the Campus Recreation Director as another. The writer also looked up how much the SRC makes in a year and how many people use the facilities. So she did do good research, as I stated in a previous paragraph, the paper would be much stronger if the writer incorporated a student’s thoughts about what should be done or how they feel about the fees and classes.