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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Thursday, January 12, 2012 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Work to deserve fair tuition Editor: ber of reasons: knowledge, experiences, lasting I'm an undergraduate student in psycholfriendships... the list is bountiful. Whether ogy, and I'm having a difficult time believing in one's goal is to simply get a higher-paying job the Education First movement on this campus. from college or to participate in bildung [selfPlease don't jump to any conclusions, let me improvement] isn't my point. My point is that explain. I think the U is a good school with we get out of college what we put in. Same with tremendous opportunities available for its all other areas of life. We vote with our actions. students; the same can be said for many colIf college is made affordable for people who leges. I also recognize that college is expensive don't go to class and just want to experience but a worthwhile investment toward a personal the freedom and the atmosphere, why should future as well as that of the community at we be fighting for it? large. Let it be said: I do not This, then, is a call to those want the price of tuition to "This, then, is a call who aren't fulfilling their colcontinue to rise unreasonably lege experience; prove to the to those who aren't for those currently enrolled world that higher education or for those who want to take fulfilling their college is worth its weight in gold — advantage of the opportunity. even though our economy experience; prove to However, as I read that isn't backed by gold any31,000 people have signed a the world that higher more — by going to class and petition against the increasinhabiting your life more fully. education is worth its And don't worry I'm not as on ing tuition prices — which is roughly how many students top of the ideals highlighted in weight in gold." are enrolled at the U — I am this letter as it might seem. To sitting in a class with about 5o percent attenbe honest, I slept through class this morning. But dance. This is unsettling. life is a constant process of self-improvement Granted, this is an extreme case that surely with no foreseeable signs of perfection, and thus isn't an accurate representation of our entire we must keep on keepin' on. student body, but my goal is to point out that Nick Shifrar, we are paying a big chunk of money for a numJunior, Psychology .C?" Cast your vote online at _49 www.dailyutahchronicle.corn What are you most looking forward to this semester? J al s ® Geneva Thompson Senior, Candidate for ASUU President, History, Political Science and Asian Studies I it • 1.My Classes 4. 2. March Madness 5. 3.Skiing and Snowboarding ?au i keStl i5 S Graduation Watching the bat-shit crazy antics at the Utah Legislature Last poll respondents voted on the question: Will you take advantage of the library being open 24 hours for finals? Yes 61% (110) Letters to the editor should be sent to letters@chronicle.utah.edu . Letters should be fewer than 350 words and must include the writer's name. Letters from students should also include the writer's major and year in school. Letters from U faculty and staff should include department and title. Letters from alumni should include the year the writer graduated. All other letters must include the sender's name and city of residence. All letters become property of The Daily Utah Chronicle and may be edited for style, length and content. • 5 No Total number of votes: 178 39% (68) Diggin' the dirt directly from the horse's mouth! What are you expecting from the ASUU elections this year? What is one of your New Year's resolutions? Do you think your tuition money is well spent? How many times have you been skiing or snowboarding this year? What class are you most excited about this semester? I'm hoping for some good dialogue. I'm really hoping that students will come out and say, "This is what we want ASUU to do." That's the point, is to be advocates for the students. I know The Chronicle wrote about the hate crimes from last year — I really don't want to see that. That upset me personally, and we want to prevent that. Do better in Chinese class. Yes and no. I can see why it costs so much, but at the same time, I feel like there could be better ways of allocating money. I'd like to see more open management, seeing how the money is actually spent and making that much clearer to students. I think I could fully back how much tuition we pay if I knew what it was spent on. That information isn't as open as it should be. Not once. I haven't been skiing since I was 12. Environmental Chinese History. I really love the professor, she's amazing. Nothing. I really don't follow it, to be honest. Just to be healthier. For the most part. It could be better. I just know that tuition keeps increasing, and I'm lower income, so I don't find that fair. Zero. I don't do either. My French class. You know, I have no expectations. Do something I'm afraid of every day, or do something I've never done every day. Yeah, I do. Zero. I don't do that anymore. My creative writing class. It will be a break, a nice, easy kind of thing just to get the creativity going. I would hope they would make some intelligent decisions that would benefit the student population while also being frugal with their budget. I don't have any. I would say so. I pay about $2,500 a semester, and I'm exposed to world-class faculty. I'm a biomedical engineering student. I have all the resources I could want — I'm told the U has a top 10 program in terms of public institutions for biomedical engineering, and I'm paying a fraction of the cost of what other students do. I'm really impressed. Skiing once and snowboarding once. Probably my think tank through the Honors College on American Indian Healthcare. It's a yearlong class, and we've been exploring the culture of American Indians. We've taken a few field trips down to the Navajo Reservation and got down to the nitty-gritty of some of the issues we face with resources. Honestly, I don't know hardly anything about it. Just to save more money. Yeah. I'm on scholarship, so I'm not really that concerned about it. None at all. I haven't been skiing or snowboarding in probably three years. I am most excited about taking biochemistry. Anna Sprouse Senior, International Studies Nick Shifrar Junior, Psychology Jackson Murphy Junior, Biomedical Engineering Haley Wilson Junior, Biology |
