7/25/03

Contra Costa Times

Students sue UC over fee increase

Eight students from UC schools in Berkeley, San Francisco, Davis and Los Angeles also said in the 15-page complaint filed in San Francisco that a 25 percent fee increase approved July 17 came down too quickly.

At issue for San Francisco attorney Jonathan Weissglass, who represents the students, is what he sees as a fairly obvious breach of contract. The regents had promised these eight professional students before they enrolled that fees would remain unchanged for the duration of their careers at their various universities, he said.

"Now, they've gone ahead and done just that -- increased the fees," Weissglass said Thursday afternoon. "The case law is clear that the promises they made constitute a contract. I don't think it's a stretch at all."

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anticrisis

In a truly civilized (in other words socialist) society, there would be no such thing as tuition. Public high school education has traditionally been free in this country - even when only a tiny fraction of the population attended high school long enough to graduate. The same should be true of public universities. If there is plenty of money for cruise missles, stunts like George "Buffoon" Bush landing on an aircraft carrier at taxpayers' expense, millions of dollars a day for the occupation of Iraq by US pirates, and a blank check for military spending for Israel, there is enough money for a free college education for everyone who wants one.

"In a truly civilized (in other words socialist) society"

This is a rather inane and verifiably stupid comment.

Must be a joke.

That's rich, coming from a rather inane and verifiably stupid person.

"In a truly civilized (in other words socialist) society, there would be no such thing as tuition."

There is the issue of attracting educational talent (professors) to the nation's universities. Wether you want to believe it or not, teachers are just as capitalist as any of the rest of us. They will go wherever prestige and salary reach a happy medium, hence the difference between say...USC and CSULA. Better education comes from more expensive universities. Graduating from such universities increases your chances of getting better jobs.

The United States will NEVER be a socialist nation, so just get that insanity out of your head. Simply move to France or somewhere else. Americans arent interested in Socialism.

In some respects, UC Berkeley is the best university in the nation. And UCLA has a far better academic reputation than the University of Spoiled Brats, er, I mean USC. And nearly all of the facutly at CSULA, Long Beach State, and similar institutions now have Ph.D.s, many from Harvard and other Ivy League institutions. You don't know what you are talking about. I've got a feeling you spent your college days drunk in some USC fraternity, majoring in football and "business administration." Maybe you ought to enroll for some refresher courses at that great private college in Virginia - Liberty College. It is led by that well-known scholar Jerry Falwell. By the way, Bush went to two very expensive private universities - living proof that attending class with other spoiled brats is no substitute for brains.

What the hell.

We are a socialist nation. It's just that the beneficiaries

are already wealthy.

what about the students who don't successfully sue the system for damages?

07/29/03 SF Chronicle:

"students and their families throughout the UC and the California State University systems are scrambling to figure out how they will absorb the fee increases approved by university officials this month."

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"What the hell.

We are a socialist nation. It's just that the beneficiaries

are already wealthy." - Sheepdog

yeah. huge conglomerated corporations internal transfers are not market systems but centralized command economies.

also: "Over time, these institutions, unwilling to reform themselves, strive to transfer the costs of their misdeeds and recklessness onto the larger citizenry. In so doing, big business is in the process of destroying the very capitalism that has provided it with a formidable ideological cover."

+ 5 other signs that the USA is a corporate socialist state. - - Ralph Nader

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--Public high school education has traditionally been free in this country--

--there is enough money for a free college education for everyone who wants one--

There's no such thing as a free lunch. The sooner you grow up and comprehend that, the better off you'll be.

--UC Berkeley--

FYI, the cost of Cal is ,800/yr, ,100 of which is paid by the state of California. Look it up.

UC FEES LAWSUIT Webpage

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8/16/03: Entering a year with the greatest cuts to student services in nearly a decade, the annual UC Student Association Congress set a broad agenda that leaders said was an attempt to preserve access to the state's premier universities.

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Don't these brave students know that they have hired a JEW lawyer? Aren't JEWS part of the problem here at Indymedia? Everyone seems to think so.

...jeez, that's a fuckin' stretch....even for you wingnuts....