The state effort to keep student fees at current levels will not compensate for campus fee initiatives such as Athletic and Student Activities Referendum. ASAR is a student-initiated proposition. Although undergraduate fees are not being reduced this year, the possible five percent reduction in graduate fees is intended to compensate for last year's reduction of undergraduate fees while graduate fees remained the same. For graduate students, there are opportunity costs involved. A lot of them could be making a lot more money than they are.
Many undergraduates also support the fee reduction for graduates.
If they made it to graduate school, they probably deserve the break anyway. The current budget has been sent to the state senate for action, and no opposition has been voiced for Davis' higher education spending plan as of yet. State officials expect more definite knowledge of the budget's likely fate later this week. All contents of this site are 1998-99 by the New University Newspaper. Reproduction in any way is prohibited unless express written consent is first obtained.