I have paid my ever-increasing tuition here at ASU for two and a half years; I bought a parking pass the first year and have paid numerous parking tickets; I had my car towed once and paid the fees involved with that.
Do you think it might be possible to take from the funds you have collected from me and fix the ... potholes over by the physical education department?
Just today, in my fruitless search to find a parking spot relatively close to the library, I plummeted to the bottom of the crater-sized hole and was lucky not to snap my axles in two. I understand that a pothole might not be high on your priorities of things to fix, but this pothole is ridiculous.
It nearly spans the width of the entire road. Maybe one of those guys that writes me my parking tickets could shovel some asphalt into the bottomless pit while he sits and waits for me to illegally park.
--Bret Fullerton,
ASU student
New fees unjustified, narrow
The $1,000 proposed honors college fee is not the only additional fee faced by ASU students. For engineering graduate students, there is a proposed ... fee to account for additional -- and essentially unjustified -- expenses in educating graduate students.
I find it a very disturbing trend to charge students an additional fee on top of tuition to be a part of any program.
If the programs require more money, tuition should be raised. Most engineering graduate students have tuition waivers as part of their compensation for teaching or research positions. Large portions of the honors college also have their tuition waived as part of their scholarship packages.
These fees appear to be an attempt by the University or colleges within the University to tax students who already have their tuition covered. This seems particularly wrong, in light of the sizable endowments both the Barrett Honors College and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering have recently received.
--Matthew Kerr,
Graduate student
Martori column too obtuse
It would seem that accuracy and substance don't really matter on the opinion page of The State Press as long as your writing sounds "purty." That is made pretty clear by Arthur Martori's article, "McCain key for Dems."
Despite the emphatic rejection of John Kerry's offer of the vice presidency, some morons on the left don't get the hint and think McCain will somehow be wooed by Hillary Clinton, who has less to offer than Kerry (if that's possible).
The only evidence of this covert plan for a bipartisan ticket was McCain's polite response to the question of Hillary's viability as a president. McCain said Clinton would make a good president, but any look at McCain's previous history of comments would show he said the same of John Kerry and then ... gave one of the best speeches of the reelection campaign in support of Bush.
McCain is a rarity in the political world in that he's a gentleman. He doesn't foam at the mouth and rant about his political opponents.
--Robert Douthett,
ASU student
