LETTER: What’s with the tuition increase?

Editor,

I am writing to gripe about the tuition increase and how it is purported to be spent.

The tuition increase isn’t what bothers me. We need the money, and our lame leaders in the state Senate won’t do anything of import to help students out, so we have to help our university out with our money. What really bothers me is what we are being told by President Hall. He says this money will go directly back to the students in the form of better professors.

What a crock of crap. Last year when he promised to do the same to ASUSU, he later put a hiring freeze throughout the campus. Where did my money go then? Now I know there was a budget cut that required the freeze, but who’s to say there won’t be another one? What guarantees are there that my money will go where my elected representatives say it will go? Will another hiring freeze be implemented after the increase is approved?

And to comment about how low our increase is compared to other schools. Who cares? I don’t go to other Utah schools. I go to this one, and my money better be spent the way ASUSU says it will be spent. Bottom line, there are no guarantees on how my money will be spent, so I don’t think ASUSU should have OK’d the proposal. Someone among our representatives needs to stand up to the administration every now and then and be the voice of students, not marionettes of the administration.

A.L. Dilley