Editorial

On Tuesday, Nov. 20 there is a meeting in Alumni Hall to discuss a proposed tuition increase. Last year the school increased its tuition by over 14 percent and there was a meeting for students to share public opinion in SU-003, which is considerably smaller than Alumni Hall. This is big stuff fellow students, so get off your feet and attend this meeting. Now this increase, like last year, will probably be for the students that aren't in the Truth in Tuition Act, where if you enrolled after 2004 there is no increase.

This tuition act only covers four years, and if you enrolled in 2004 you're in your fourth year. Which means you need to find out how much your tuition will be affected.

"What this [increase] does is keeps us where we are, and we simply don't have the money for that," Provost Lawrence P. Franks said how last year's tuition hike would improve the amount of courses or section for classes.

It is looking like Franks maybe getting ready to say the same thing. And, now there are students coming up to us talking about problems in the Biology Department, Math Department.

"My biology professor is assigning homework one day before it is due on black board and then saying, 'you can stay after to finish it,' this is unfair," says a student in the department. Other students are complaining that teachers are be hired way to fast and the students are saying the biology professors are unprepared for class.

In the Math Department students are finding that they do fine in Math 090 , 091 and 092 but then when go higher, they fail the next class up. Is this the student's problem or is it the department not teaching the appropriate skills?

Then there is the English Department problem that you can read about on the front page, if you haven't done so.

There are some serious problems and as we see with the English Department, if these problems aren't dealt with properly they become public.

You the student pay for school, even if you get aid, it is still your responsibility to take your schooling seriously and make sure the university to gives you the basic skill to get your degree that will successfully carry you to the next level, what ever it may be.