The funds resulting from the sale of season tickets to students are not sufficient by reason of the fact that less than half of the students purchase tickets. We can hardly rely on outsiders for support as the cities of Fargo and Moorhead contain no less than six educational institutions supporting teams. This causes a surfeit of basketball games during the winter and in the spring, the Northern League team draws the baseball crowds. As a result, the management is forced to resort to benefit socials, private subscriptions, and the like, to make both ends meet. No student has any business registering at a school unless he intends to support its activities.
Many institutions require students, at registration, to pay a certain sum towards athletics.
This we believe to be a good plan. If students who register for the whole year should pay two dollars, and winter students one dollar, the resulting funds would be ample for the needs of our athletic teams. Other plans may present themselves but some change must be made to insure a permanent basis. This slipshod manner of running affairs has gone on long enough. They were getting up early in the morning and taking cross country runs before breakfast.