Editor:

So the students in your opinion poll think the elimination of 32 low-enrollment programs is crap? Unfair? Who cares? And I mean that literally. Who cares enough to do something about it? Nobody.

The students will always be the first on the chopping block. When a bean counter like Sypherd needs to make cuts, they will always be the ones to suffer. And why not? They complain a lot, but they will never be organized enough or involved enough to come up with a plan to put some pressure on Sypherd. There are more than 40,000 students at this university dropping cash for various services.

If the student body got together and boycotted just a few services they thought were unfair, like parking or the bookstore, the university would respond. The profit loss from parking alone would make the university sit up and take notice. That's a language they understand. Yet, if someone were to arrange a meeting designed to come up with ways to put the economic pressure back on Sypherd, no one would show up. It is easier to whine than to get organized.

So I say, "pay the inflated price for your parking sticker, buy those overpriced books, let your program get cut. It's easier that way. But please, stop whining."

Jon Leonard
mechanical engineering senior