University Tuition Hike in California- (The fight is ours as well)

Dear colleagues, friends, and casual observers,

We currently live in a time of increasing economic hardships, as you well know.   We live in a time that sees tuition rising higher and higher, and higher.  We also live in a time that sees student disgust with this upward trend.  But sadly, we find ourselves lacking the necessary coordination, collaboration, solidarity and camaraderie necessary to stand up against this gross violation of principle.  Together, as a collective student body, as one university student body spanning the entirety of the United States, we not only can resist, but shall.

The situation in California is a bit more somber than here in Indiana, at least for now.  Tuition is being raised by 32% for in-state students.  Protests have erupted, students have organized, and the fight ensues.  However, I am a firm believer that we, as university students at IU, have a responsibility and obligation (if not a moral one) to express solidarity and support for our colleagues in California (for the fact of the matter is that tuition, whether we like it or not, will rise, and rise again, here in Bloomington.) The best chance we have to curtail this malignant growth is through inter-university collaboration. For starters, we must conduct constructive dialogue amongst ourselves and reach out to our student government, IUSA, to support us (This begins by sharing your ideas below…)

When we are able to express ourselves fully with university students in California, the statement will be made and we will have a chance to defend ourselves, and our rights, before it is too late.

The fight in California is our fight as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/education/20tuition.html