Abstract:
The Regents approved a 32 percent fee increase amidst protests late this morning at the meeting at UCLA. The only Regent to vote against the increase was Student Regent Jesse Bernal....
Originally posted byJeffrey Ambriz
To all the UC Students bitching about the Fee raises, the moment of action is not now; it was yesterday, yesteryear, last quarter, last fall... It became clear and eminent that education was under threat, yet as a whole we failed to mobilized, we failed to care soon enough, most students were apathetic to the whole situation. A few of us have been fighting fee increases our entire stay at the UC, but to no avail. Just remember you can't save the arm after it's been cut off. And bitching and moaning about it is not going bring tuition down, let this be a lesson to future and current students that education should always be valued and fought for.
Originally posted byJeffrey Ambriz
To all the UC Students bitching about the Fee raises, the moment of action is not now; it was yesterday, yesteryear, last quarter, last fall... It became clear and eminent that education was under threat, yet as a whole we failed to mobilized, we failed to care soon enough, most students were apathetic to the whole situation. A few of us have been fighting fee increases our entire stay at the UC, but to no avail. Just remember you can't save the arm after it's been cut off. And bitching and moaning about it is not going bring tuition down, let this be a lesson to future and current students that education should always be valued and fought for.
Jeffrey Ambriz
posted 11/18/09 @ 5:06 PM PST