Tony Tran
Section 2
Week 4
Fighting
Privatization, Occupy Activists at CUNY and UC Kick Into High Gear
After
looking at this article, I observed the pattern of events that lead to so much
problems. I saw that privatizing public college institutions is good for the money,
but bad in every other way. Because private companies can wave its bling to a
college, they are allowed to effectively control the college and exploit them
as much as they want. And because all of the high-up administrators have some
sort of connection to the private corporations, they can care less about the
students. I read about Berkeley’s Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and researched
more of our own UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to see if they had any point
of view that could have affected their choices.
At least for our chancellor, I personally believe she
was not completely responsible for the pepper spray incident (she allowed
peaceful police action without arrests or real force however it was her mistake
that she didn’t logically know that protesters wouldn’t give up); however, I
personally believe most of the fault was on the police force that made really
bad decisions.
But the point I really want to get into is that UC
systems are still raising the tuition for students even after the incident.
What I cannot comprehend is the fact that ‘why not lessen the amount of
spending on creating or embellishing more college structures and use that to
lessen the staggering monetary pressures of students’? Every year now I see or
hear about renovations or creations of new UC buildings. All I think is how they
are unnecessary and primarily benefits the UC by making them sound better and
larger, but it is we, the students, that are back-breakingly funding all of
these excess projects.
Question: Is all of the college student money really
put into good use? How much is allocated for special projects? Is there any
focus on creating better class environments and not just creating small extra
student buildings?
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