Empathetic college students, a stingy chancellor, and a Tennessee Board of Regents proposal that reads a lot like a TPS report that you would find in the movie Office Space. Well, personally I would like to have Gangsta's Paradise playing when I read these papers.
It is nice to see protests back in the college level really. I was starting to think that all the fire had left the youth of today. Guess Nirvana was wrong about that smell. Of course nothing can cause more of a reaction from anyone than the man trying to take the money from those who could use it. I really don't think there is going to be a win for anyone in the TBR. The vote originally discounted any opinions made by the students, and all ideas of a compromise were dismissed like the out of the closet son from the family X-mas party. Really the TBR proposal wasn't even known to most students and was snuck through the law making process like a similar proposition eight. Now students are making themselves heard at least.
All this proposition will mean to those in college is a loss of quality education. More online classes given to students who just learned to adapt to lectures in person. Most students barely have the responsibility to listen, do you think they'll have the responsibility to do the reading required for an online class? There will be a large increase in students taught by other students. Some people have just learned to pay attention in class and they're going to make them teach? We must also account for the morals of the actual professors. They're getting payed less to be replaced by computer programs and students they had in class last semester.
No one wants to have to pay more for school or spend any more time there. I personally can't wait to be out of college so I can take a couple years off. These budget cuts are only going to keep me around longer, and as long as I'm around money will be also...
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