While attending the men’s basketball game on Jan. 31 against City College of San Francisco, I couldn’t help noticing how few Skyline students were in the crowd.

The majority of college aged fans were cheering not for the home team, but for the visiting CCSF. The people meekly supporting on our Skyline Trojans were either family or friends of the players. I was appalled that so few of the general student body chose to attend. It was amazing. Whatever happened to rooting for the home team? At Skyline, we don’t have a football team, so, naturally I assumed the student body would latch onto one of the other sports, like our excellent baseball or basketball teams.

However, we have no fans, so we have no home court advantage. I still can not believe it. This school lacks a proper identity. I never felt this school was particularly art, music or literature oriented (the natural enemies of physical education, skinny intellectuals.) In addition, this isn’t a very big sports school, yet, so what is left? Science, not that big; psychology, I don’t know anyone taking a psychology class.

As you can see, we have an identity catastrophe here at Skyline. We do not have anything to make us feel pride for attending this college. In the void that is left, this school becomes just a holding pen until we can get into a real university. But, why can’t the sports played here unite the student body, bringing a sense of school spirit to this place? Has the fog taken all your joy?

What excuse could there possibly be? The games are inexpensive, and with all the drops and absentees in class it is not like you guys are studying. So what’s up? You would not see that many empty seats at a Duke home game and the students that go there attend an academically strenuous institution. Hell, I take four classes, write for the newspaper, and work, yet I still managed to come out and support 11 players that I don’t even know.

People! The game was against City College of San Francisco, a rival. Maybe, because I am from the Los Angeles area, I take a special kind of pleasure in beating a San Francisco team, but in this circumstance you should too. The stands should be packed with so many rowdy students stuffed into every possible seat that we force the school to make seating available on both sides of the gym. This is a call to support very good, yet underrated sports programs.