I am thoroughly fed up with University departments nickel and dimming us to death. I have been in college a long time and I cannot recall a semester at any school that I have attended that there wasn’t a fee increase. My outrage is not towards the “new student services fee” or any other fee specifically. It just seems to me that every time the University or a department or a student center needs more money that they come running to us, the student body. I would not pretend to know the inner workings of the University’s financial department, but I would like to see an article in The Battalion about how a department needs more money and they are really trying hard not to come to the student’s pocket books. I recommend that those of you who work for your tuition ask yourselves “Why do we need this fee increase.” An education, in this country, is a basic right. Everyone deserves an education. Not just the wealthiest 25 percent. The overall education of our people is what has made this country so great.
Matthew Hendrix
Class of 1999