Coalitions of students are needed across Virginia to change opinion. Other public colleges without large nesteggs, like Virginia Tech and VCU, will see a strain on achieving the numbers needed to sustain their schools. Specific issues aside, though, this battle is about the education U.Va. The answer is not pretty, as politicians are more willing to provide relief to parents' wallets rather than the institutions starving for money. Students need to begin coordinating their actions across the Commonwealth if the bone-headed budgetary decisions of the '90s are to end.
Politicians listen to advisers, who, in turn, listen to voters.
Admittedly, something is lost in the translation, but college students, if their efforts are properly coordinated, could start making a dent in the political mumbo jumbo that rules the airwaves. Politicians won't do it, and your parents can't afford to. It's the only time in your life when Capraesque idealism actually has a fighting chance.