Caitlin Nish Daily Staff Reporter Most candidates running for seats on the Michigan Student Assembly are campaigning on issues they feel directly affect University students - the rising cost of tuition and increased student services. With the high cost of tuition a constant concern for many students, the candidates have conflicting ideas on how to remedy the costs of education while still providing and even expanding student services. The Defend Affirmative Action Party supports the formation of a North American alliance of student governments to fight for a tuition freeze, and the Blue Party advocates lobbying the state government for increased funding to lower the amount students pay. Education shouldn't be a privilege, it should be a right.
Policies have long range purposes.
The tuition freeze is a long-range idea. Making it so that more people can afford school will make admissions more competitive by bringing in top-notch students who can't afford it now. Although the assembly voted down a proposal for a tuition freeze several weeks ago, DAAP members plan to keep fighting. Basically, that resolution was put up a couple of weeks ago. Erika Dowdell, a DAAP member running for re-election.