Texas State Athletics offers free tuition for half-court shot

By Rhian Davis Sports Contributor

At each of the remaining men’s and women’s basketball home games, one randomly selected student will have the chance to make a half-court shot and win one semester of free tuition.

The tuition will be awarded for the fall 2023 semester with a max payment of $4,611. If the winning students already receive scholarships from Texas State, that dollar amount will be subtracted from the half-court tuition winnings.

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The initial campaign by YDSA is going to be centered around university jobs in the public sector.

"Texas is a right-to-work state, and part of that means that public sector workers like those who work for the university don't have collective bargaining rights," Maglich said. "To kind of work around that, we’re instead launching a department-by-department pressure campaign, so the university is able to raise wages unilaterally across the board, but that’s a decision up to the Board of Regents."

YDSA has laid some groundwork for canvasing student workers and collecting information through an anonymous interest form regarding their jobs on campus.

"I don't think we've gotten any answers that said, across the board, yes, people can afford to live," Maglich said. "We really want to make sure that we're that we're building this campaign in a way that workers are comfortable in participating and don't like the fear that they're going to lose their jobs."

By following a department-bydepartment strategy, YDSA hopes to see the largest departments raise wages first so that smaller departments will follow suit. Maglich said they plan to use public media and public pressure to see results.

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