Mr. Gabriel, Ms. Quindel and Mr. Bryant have a nice editorial on the possibility of raising student fees. Their gist is that Cal has a standard cost of living when housing/living expenses are factored in, so that costs are plenty high already. Hence, students shouldn't be first on the block to pay for UC.

As the Nov. 18 UCLA Daily Bruin editorial states, students should not be responsible for funding UC.

But they don't take a crack at the actual problem: where's the money going to come from? This isn't just a budget crisis. We're looking at the possibility of 10-20% cuts across the board. Mrs. Gabriel and Bryant write

For the future of California, we must fight to maintain the accessibility, affordability and quality of UC. Fee hikes, however "modest" they may seem, will only serve to make higher education a privilege instead of our right.

it's entirely possible that two of those goals have become opposing. Quality may depend on squeezing money from the only source left untapped for ten years: a fee hike. This is probably the choice facing Mr. Bryant's lobbyists, and attempts to have it both ways may backfire. Email This Post!