External VP Bryant urges students to fight the massive fee hike. He makes some good points about students being already overcommitted. But without offering an alternative method of financing UC's incredible budget deficit, what sort of proposal is he really making? This isn't about rhetoric, it's about a mandatory need to fill a budget gap. Where else can the money come from? Faculty budgets? Staff budgets? After taking some out of Administrative budgets, there's nowhere else to go but into student pockets. Or at least parental pockets.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want a fee hike. But for us to be a credible lobbying force, we have to be able to present an alternative plan. Raising state taxes? Borrowing? Hopefully these lobbyists that Mr. Bryant is sending will have a response ready to the question 'where else can we get the money?'Email This Post!