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PRESENTS
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MRS IRENE
HELMIMGER
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Size isn't everything
Why does the Collegian look so
small? (pick one)
1. Ifs an environmental thing-—we're
saving paper.
2. What do you mean? It's always
been this size.
3. Ifs hard to say—why do you want
to know?
4. We have a new printer with a
smaller press because our previous
contract was cancelled and noone else
wanted the job.
5. Why would anyone major in
journalism?
(If you picked #4, you are very
smart.)
Trustees are morally bereft
Those of us who will graduate in
May and be long gone before the next
fee increase sinks in should consider
ourselves lucky, right? Well, maybe,
but on behalf of all undergraduates
and continuing students, we should
also be somewhere between livid and
homicidal.
If the proposed CSU fee increase is
implemented, students will pay $372
more in tuition per year, beginning
next semester.
Governor Wilson recommended the
40 percent fee increase to the CSU Board
of Trustees after putting together a
1992-1993 budget that fell $137 million
short of meeting the CSU's needs, and
the trustees approved it.
The budget proposal
now goes to the state
Legislature for debate
and discussion, other¬
wise known as postur¬
ing and propaganda.
Thechances of fees not
being increased are slim
to none.
Everyone knows that
the stateand federal gov¬
ernments have no money, and the
trickle-down effect of being broke
means that those of us at the bottom,
namely college students at lower so¬
cio-economic levels, are going to get
trickled on the most. 0
With regard to the amountof money
government spends on higher educa¬
tion, the problem mat has resulted in
these fe^ increases is not so much eco¬
nomic as it is moral.
Okay, so legislating is a tough job;
hunds are outstretched everywhereyou
look. So what? What is more important
than educating people, enabling
women and men tol^ecorne informed,
productive citizens who contribute to
the growth, quality and economic sta¬
bility of society? Nothing, not new
office buildings, landscaped freeway
off-ramps, legislators' limo and dry
cleaning bills or anything else.
How dare the CSU Board of Trus¬
tees, headed by new Chancellor Barry
Munitz, whose job training took place
in a Fortune 500 company rather than
on a college campus, decide to charge
students $372 more per year for an
education?
First of all, raising the fees this much
is illegal. According to the Master Plan
"...Thetrickle-down ef-in Higher EdUca_
. .   ,     . tion, established in
feet of being broke i960 through the
means that thOSe Of US D°nahoe Higher
at the bottom, namely 23SSS25
College   Students   at California has al-
lower socio-economic 122s !**!to.j*0-
videa low-cost edu-
levels, are going to get cation to those awe
trickled on the most."  to benefit re8ard-
less of socio-eco¬
nomic status and geographical
location...the state shall continue to
exercise its primary responsibility for
funding post-secondary education, and
students shall continue to pay a por¬
tion of the cost; but student charges
shall not be changed substantially in
any single year...."
Thesearenot ambiguous words. The
Legislature must pass specific legisla¬
tion to raise fees more than 10 percent
in one year. Last year's 20 percent fee
increase, labeled an "emergency"
measure by Wilson, was a way to side¬
step state law. Wilson subsequently
asked that the Legislature make the
"emergency" measure permanent.
Second of all, the trustees would
never pull this if we were all high-
powered businesspeople. The whole
sorry situation was denounced in a
CSUFCalifornia Faculty Association
flier as a potshot at an "easy target.
"Students, for the most part, are
See TRUSTEES, page 7
Unsigned editoriak
reflect the opinion of Colle¬
gian editorial staff and are
not necessarily the opinions
of CSUF faculty or stu¬
dents. Letters to the editor
are welcome, will be edited
for length only and may be
dropped off at the Collegian
office in the Keats Campus
building.
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