The Coalition Against the Recreation and Wellness Center marched in protest after discovering that the student fee advisory meeting they planned to attend had been cancelled without prior notice.

The receptionist in the office of the vice president of student affairs said the meeting was cancelled due to not enough members of the committee showing up.

The Student Fee Advisory Committee was supposed to meet at noon on Wednesday, to decide what the parameters of the petition supporting the proposed recreation center would be.

This is the second time this meeting has been canceled in the past month.

The committee is a group composed of Associated Students, Inc. elected officials and other campus administrators and staff. In their last meeting, held Aug. 26, members voted to deny the students the right to vote on whether or not they want the Recreation and Wellness Center. They decided instead to use a petition process.

"I think we need to spark a dialogue and make it clear to the campus community that this is a controversial issue," said Aaron Buchbinder, a master's student studying social work at SF State. "Most students should be aware of how their money is spent by student government. It is going to cost students $93 million even though it won't be seen until 2015."

Sam Brown-Vasquez, 21-year-old environmental studies and Spanish major, is the main organizer of the coalition. He said that he was on the student fee advisory committee but was kicked off and replaced without any prior notice.

"The problem is not just the Recreation and Wellness Center," said Brown-Vasquez. "It's the way things are done on campus. It's the bureaucracy."

The protesters marched through campus displaying banners and chanting, "no more fees, we demand democracy."

Students gathered around the ASI office and wrote letters to ASI President Natalie Franklin.

Alejandro Rios, the ASI business office manager, said that he would not speak on behalf of ASI.

Krystale Triggs, a 24-year-old anthropology major, said that it would be unnecessary to build a recreational center during this time of financial crisis and was impressed by the student turnout.

"E-mail and word of mouth is how these people found out about the protest," Triggs said. "In my classes, nobody knew about it."

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