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EDITORIAL
An open letter to Steven Lightcap and colleagues:
We are pretty sure that if you are reading this editorial, you· already passed by our news section. Maybe you noticed the graph illustrating our tuition's percentage of increase in comparison to the national average.
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Since it is us, the students, who are paying the tuition, we feel that we have the right to ask you a few questions. Specific answers would be appreciated instead of vague terms like "strategic planning" and "keeping pace."
We agree that it is important to be technologically competitive with other colleges. The benefits of the colleges recent upgrades include a better education for us and more value to our diploma.
However, it has still not been made clear why we have to keep paying more every year just to keep up with other colleges. Why is it that other colleges can provide competition for our own while only raising their tuitions at about half the rate of ours?
If you could please let us know what exactly the tuition increases are going towards, it would be greatly appreciated. We're not asking for anything impossible; we're just asking for the truth.
"Zero Tolerance" having negative effect
Last year, the college adopted· a "Zero Tolerance" policy toward alcohol. Among other things, the policy states that students who are hospitalized for alcohol sickness will be suspended from the college for one week.
One year later, it has come time to review the effects of this policy. Does it serve its proposed purpose of dissuading students from abusing alcohol, or does it prevent students from getting help for their friends in need of medical aid?
After this past week's SGA campus wide meeting, it became apparent how the students present feel about the issue. There is a common fear that someday a student will not receive medical attention because their friends do not want them to be suspended.
The policy may have sounded good in theory, but it's possible effects are positively frightening. All we ask is that the policy be closely examined before it is too late.
