Sunday, October 14, 2007
You mean the ASUC resolution didn't work?
Somehow, despite the ASUC's passage of a bill in support of the DREAM Act, it got vetoed.
The bill to make college financial aid available to illegal immigrant students was SB1, authored by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles. Proponents of the so-called California Dream Act said the state should not waste talent coming out of its high schools.
But Schwarzenegger, in his message to the Senate, said the state could not afford to subsidize such aid to illegal immigrants at a time when colleges are "raising fees on all students attending college in order to maintain the quality of education provided." Which side was the UCSA on? The one in favor of increased fees, of course. And yet somehow, their fee-reduction efforts don't seem successful...
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