Students need to mobilize so opinions can be heard

I am writing this letter in response to the inevitable $1,000 tuition hike. I find it incredible that the wealthy people in this country are getting enormous tax cuts while at the same time students who can hardly afford something off the dollar menu at McDonald's are facing a huge tuition hike. Students are not likely to get a huge tax break when compared to the rest of society. As the distribution of wealth in this country is a skewed distribution, I find it impossible to believe that a great number of students will get a substantial amount of money back from the government unless they lie on the wealthier side of the curve. Why can't these refunded tax dollars really be put back into the economy by educating the next generation in the workforce? [Read article]

Tonight at 9 in Gentle Ben's, the results of this year's Associated Students of the University of Arizona elections will be announced. In the past few weeks, students have noticed florescent fliers in the hallways and have been greeted by smiling student candidates requesting their vote. Considerable space has been given to covering the ASUA elections in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, but so what? Less than six percent of the student body voted in the primary election last week. Do undergraduates care that there is a student government that represents them? Should students take time out of their day to cast a vote at asua.arizona.edu? [Read article]