Vicky Hatakeyama
ASA 002 - A02
Response #4: A Tale of Two Campuses
Reading this article about the occupy movements taking place
in UC Berkeley and UC Davis to make the campuses a more affordable place for
middle-income families, I found it concerning to read about such harsh
treatment the students went through.
Even with increasing awareness of budget cuts from the government, the
universities only raise the tuition while keeping or even raising the salary
for professors and school faculties.
With “tuition increasing, [students] are worried about how they will
repay their loans” and it is not even guaranteed after graduating whether he or
she will get a job or not. This will
only frustrate and anger students just as the chancellor mentions. Instead of Davis trying to support students,
they instead tried to publicize their concern of how students caused $8500 of
damage to their hall after the protest that the Occupy students have taken into
action. The focus should not be in the
fact that the damage caused such expenses.
The school should plan, just as how UC Berkeley did, to “get a helping
hand from a new, far-reaching financial-aid plan.”
Question: Are such student protests/movement at the end not
effective and/or wasted effort?
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