UC Davis students gave their campus newspaper new life Friday, voting to tax themselves nearly $300,000 a year to support the operations of the California Aggie indefinitely...Those who want the paper should pay for it by purchase or subscription, they shouldn’t (and should be able to) require others to pay for it. Hey, you’re required to pay for this product you don’t want! They’re good little Obama-bots over there in Berkeley-lite.
At $1,703.66 a year, UC Davis has the highest campus fees of all 10 UC schools. The fees generally pay for student government, facilities and the bus system. By comparison, campus fees at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego total $1,015.50 and $1,078.59, respectively.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
UC Davis Students Vote To Pay Higher Fees For School Newspaper
I don't want to hear even the slightest whimper from them about the cost of public education in California when I, the taxpayer, am subsidizing that cost while they vote themselves even higher fees:
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Darren ... personally, I think the paper should be funded by the university, through whichever means. But this passed with about 73% ... that is not an inconsiderable margin... and it costs them 10 bucks a year. that's almost one tenth of the cost of ridiculously priced math text ...
Right and wrong is now determined by the cost and not by whether it's right or wrong?
Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny. The paper should sink or swim on its own merits. "Socialized newspapers" will succeed about as well as socialized medicine does.
I think that 'socialized' is a bit of a reach ...this is a legitimate program at an already subsidized public university. I still feel that it should just be built in to the overall budget ... but, approving the subsidy by vote, at an overwhelming majority ... isn't that what a free market solution and democracy entail? I remember, at UCD, having a vote on whether or not to opt for a surcharge to fund athletics programs ... I voted for that one, too. The real question, to me, is why annual tuition that was just under 1500 bucks a year ('84 - '88), is now closer to 15 grand ... and they still can't fund their newspaper. That's where you get my outrage...
I wonder what the vote would have been if the people actually paying the fees (the parents) would have voted?
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