When push came to shove and a meeting was set in stone to actually discuss increasing tuition, only one student showed up. That’s not an under exaggeration – only one student literally showed up.
Besides, students have another reason not to complain, studies show that the poorer you are, the more affordable college is for you. So why do students still insist on griping?
When it came time to walk the walk, students were nowhere to be found. The only evidence of protest were the facebook statuses complaining about it.
Of course, students will continue to complain about the extra $200 and wonder what more they could have done. In all honesty, some of us wonder why tuition isn’t increased every semester.
Hell, we should thank our Board of Trustees, with no one there to protest the meeting, they could have raised our tuition by 10 percent and no one would have stopped them.
If I raised “taxes” on my constituency every year, shouldn’t I be held accountable for it? Students don’t want to hold Trustees or administrators responsible, but continue to be dumbfounded and awestruck at the almost annual tuition increase.
Both the tuition increases and the apathy have become a new tradition.