TO THE EDITOR:
The graphic accompanying Tuesday’s teach-in cover story trivializes the important issue of tuition increases and does a disservice to students.
I appreciate the effort to contextualize tuition increases for readers. How appropriate, though, is it to talk about tuition in terms of pizza and cases of Bud Light? I would hardly walk up to a member of the Board of Governors and say, “Please don’t increase my tuition, I won’t be able to buy Pokey Stix every night next semester.”
Give us those numbers in terms of current tuition, textbook costs or other relevant comparison metrics. And why shy away from presenting the other side of the issue? I am certainly against drastic, excessive tuition increases. But if none are made, how many faculty members will not get a raise and potentially leave?
How many class sections will be cut? How many grants, study abroad programs, speakers and campus performances will go away as departments make tough decisions?
Please continue to cover the state of affairs regarding tuition increases. Please do not do our students the disservice of assuming the only way we can process that information is by relating it to our stomachs.
Hetali Lodaya
Sophomore
Chemistry,
Public Policy
