Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Students protest tuition hikes

Students protest tuition hikes

The Spartans and Wolverines may be university rivals but they agree on at least one thing - college is expensive and they want government officials to prioritize higher education.

"It's not every day you will see a Wolverine and Spartan standing peacefully along side each other," Dysarz said with a laugh.

"This state has suffered long enough and needs its political leaders to put their differences aside, like we students did today."

Last month, the MSU Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition 5.2 percent for the coming year and 4.9 percent for the next. Annual tuition and fees for in-state freshmen at MSU after the coming year's increase will be $10,880.

MSU President Lou Anna Simon previously has said the university will use federal stimulus monies it gets from the state to lower tuition costs for undergraduate students from Michigan, potentially bringing the actual tuition increase down to 2.5 percent.

All this expensive and "valuable" education and these kids think it's their parents (through increased taxes and reduced services where they live) who aren't paying enough taxes?

Or even worse, some magic, evil, corporation.

No mention of the salaries and benefits and other expenses controlled by the universities?

gimme a break... we're doomed!

update:
http://reason.tv/video/show/author-richard-vedder-discusse

we're still doomed!

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