Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Uh, sure, I'll waste more money
Fee hikes up for vote!!!!
My recommendation: Vote no. Especially if you're healthy. Or too stubborn to seek help if you're not.
The demand for increased services, especially mental health services, has come directly from the student body, Madon said.
“It’s a way for us to firewall our investment in health services,” [grad student Temina Madon] said.
No one ever asks my opinion on these things. Yet somehow I'm clamoring for mental health services. What's up with that? And who the hell uses 'firewall' like that anymore? Computers clearly haven't conquered enough of the world.
“There’s this folklore that Berkeley students are fiscally very conservative, and that they generally oppose fee increases,” Madon said. “I don’t think that’s necessarily the case.”
Boy, am I out of the loop. I've never heard this folklore, either.
[Vice chancellor Steve Lustig] said he expects students might be reluctant to raise fees, but hopes that increased student involvement will carry the initiative.
Oh, great. More "We're students, and we support this, so you should, too, because you're students, too. Why is it a good idea? I don't know, and I won't explain it, but we're students, too, so you should agree with us! All students have identical goals!!!"
UC Berkeley students currently pay $98.75 in campus fees, which include payments to the student government and the Ethnic Studies Department. Campus fees at UCLA, in contrast, total more than $300.
While $6 of UC Berkeley’s fees go toward the student union, UCLA students pay $113 to maintain theirs.
Well, the explanation for the student union thing is sort of obvious: We don't use ours, so we don't pay a whole lot for it. But I'm suprised that we're funding the Ethnic Studies Department. Why don't we fund a real department? Where do you start the referendum to de-fund the Ethnic Studies Department so they can beg for their funding just like every other department?
Some students, however, said the benefits of a student health referendum would outweigh the costs.
More of a usage complaint. The use of 'however' suggests that this statement is in contrast with some statement above. However, there hasn't been a single comment opposed to this referendum referenced yet in this article. In summary:
Some students think this is a good idea.
Some students, however, think this is a good idea.
Nice job on the editing.
Also, why can't they find an opinion from someone opposed to this referendum that doesn't sound as shallow as "I don't wanna!"? Do they just not look?
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