Monday, February 09, 2009

UW Students Protest Increasing Tuition

Madison loves a protest!

Members and advocates of the United Council of UW Students gathered Saturday outside the Student Activity Center to rally against the potential rise of tuition in the UW System.

Despite the windy weather, students from over half of the 26 UW campuses promoted the 2009-2011 Statewide Biennial Budget Campaign.

Autumn Prazuch, a sophomore at UW-Marathon County, said the group’s main objective is to persuade the state Legislature to freeze or lower tuition.

I was all with them until I got to this part:

Haas said the rise of tuition could cause students’ grades to drop when they have to pay their own way through college.

Plenty of people have worked their way through college just fine.  Get a job, hippie.  I kid… I kid… kind of.

(6) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2100 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Maybe if they didn’t have to pay for abortions, their tuition wouldn’t go up

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 09, 2009 at 2105 hrs


  2. Is there any evidence that college students are working less today than they did ten or twenty years ago?

    Posted by scott on February 09, 2009 at 2112 hrs


  3. I had average grades at first in college.  When I started working full time I got straight A’s.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 09, 2009 at 2145 hrs


  4. So lets see, 34 years ago had I not worked during school and two jobs in the summer I could have graduated with a 4.0 instead of a 3.0.  But then I’d have been home studying and would have missed some of the hellacious drunken hijinks I wouldn’t have been able to afford to do.  And lets see, for 34 years I’ve had decent jobs and a good life with my 3.0 (BTW, after your first few years out of school nobody gives a damn about your GPA anyways, its what you produce).  I guess in retrospect, I’ll take the 3.0 and some drunken fun while making the best friends I’ve had,  over the 4.0 and staying home and studying.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 09, 2009 at 2154 hrs


  5. Maybe they could drop a few Obama worship classes or just cut out some of the “back-up” jobs instead of raising tution.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 09, 2009 at 2154 hrs


  6. I worked full-time thru college.  This kid seriously needs to - hell, I’m not sure what he needs to do - if this is his attitude, wow.

    I just wish him luck when life actually smacks him up side the head like it most certainly will at some point.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 10, 2009 at 2007 hrs


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