Nation-wide College budget cuts

The problem:
Tuition increases are rising, class sizes are getting larger and over the board huge budget cuts have been made. Work-study has been cut and on hold for a year. There is basically no money and the state is getting more into debt.

The solution:
While I am all for freedom of speech and voicing protests--I do not think that cutting class is the right way to do it. Nor is making a mockery by hosting a 'faux funeral' and singing 'amazing grace' at the Capitol steps any way to make a student seem serious or wanting to fix the problem go any quicker. It wasn't really a mature thing to do. I believe that solidarity and getting your voice heard are great methods on how to address the problem.

As for possible solutions on the gigantic budget cuts and skyrocketing tuition increases: I do agree with what the student suggested in the article. By putting a cap on how much a president, dean or professor makes is an efficient way--though it doesn't necessarily solve the problem; it barely makes a dent. I don't believe in paying for public education and that it should be free. I am also a big believer in incentives--the propositions that I would suggest would include some pretty radical minds to agree to it.

One radical idea that I have are that there are certain students that just simply don't care for being in college and that "they are doing it to kill time". I believe that if students don't maintain at least a 3.0 GPA then they should be suspended for a year or two or however long it takes for them to figure out their lives--whereas allowing more students who truly want to be there to come in.