Students Round-up for Rally

Sacramento, Calif., USA – The increase in fees and furloughs at Sacramento State University brought together students, family, and faculty at a noontime rally Wednesday at Sacramento State University to fight back on the unfair cut backs.

Not only was the heat blistering down on the quad at CSU, but it was blistering among the students, family, and faculty that were present in the rally. Increasing the fees at a total of 32 percent has the characteristics to make anyone hot.

“Si se puede,”(yes we can) was chanted at the rally loud and proud. Students and faculty insisted that students go to the President of Sacramento State, Alexander Gonzalez, and do as little as complain in order to be heard. If students don’t take any action whatsoever, it seems as if they don’t care that their education is at stake because they can no longer afford it.

There was a number of faculty and students walking around the rally handing out President Gonzalez’s contact information. Having the information handy might have prompted students a little more to make their voice be heard. There is no reason to sit there and just take the fee increase and the classroom cut backs.

Does it make any sense that we as students are paying 32 percent more in fees, but are receiving less education? How in the world does that even add up? Our Professors are making 10 percent less and taking furlough days to satisfy the cut back.

Aren’t the students supposed to be the future of this nation? How can we expect to get our full-on education when we can barely afford it, and can’t be at school because of these so-called furloughs? The student’s library and classroom time has been cut back and the people in charge seem to not care. GREEDINESS! That’s exactly what it is. There is no compassion.

Even before the rally took place, all students would hear about is the cut backs, fee increase, and furlough days in the classrooms. It is unfair that many students couldn’t even get their classes because they weren’t available, or they had to get rid of them because there wasn’t enough funding. How is there not enough funding when each and every student attending Sacramento State is paying 32 percent more in fees? Makes us wonder, doesn’t it?

The rally was one of the first many attempts that students and faculty will make in order to bring things back into a fair trade. There is no reason for students to have to conquer their education both intellectually and financially. Why do students need anymore stress as it is? It seems as if people who have the upper hand don’t really care enough, and we as students have to form rally’s just to be heard.

The injustice needs to stop now! Students will continue fighting because there is supposed to be another 20 percent increase if we don’t put a stop to it.
“When they say cut back, we say FIGHT BACK!”