There are some resources available in department labs that aren't across campus. Special software is one thing, but also faculty nearby and lab assistants who know the software and the discipline in a departmental lab are part of the resources. If students need to use specific resources, then upgrade equipment to an acceptable operating level with TRF funding. There's a high student population there. This year can be a Chevy rather than a Cadillac year.
Next year can be different.
When engineering students ask what they're getting for their technology fees, it's hard to answer. Now it's ORST accounts and use of the modem pool. I keep coming back to the question of what makes a university, rather than a collection of colleges. We need a shared sense of purpose, and the idea that you help fund the many directions that make this a group larger than the one you yourself belong to. The TRF is useful to more students than the child care center, for example, but student fees help fund that.