Reduction in work study an unnecessary attack
By Britt Johnsen, Leslie Andres & Kristen J. Kubisiak
The issue: The state will be cutting funding for work study.
What we think: There are other ways to tackle this budget issue, ways that will not negatively affect students and the surrounding campus community.
After having had our education funds cut so horrendously, again the state is back, like a terrible villain in a horror movie, to unnecessarily cut, slash and slay our lives as students.
The reduction in work study will negatively affect many. Although it is "only" 15 percent, that 15 percent may be those who provide maintenance, service and true diligence in many fields of work. Moreover, those 15 percent may be those who most need those hard-earned dollars that maintenance, service and true diligence bring.
It is easy for the state to cut funding for vital programs, because they don't have to experience the repercussions every day what we, as a campus, may experience. If we have a lack of employees because we cannot pay them, the slashing and slaying may very well be directly to the community. We could end up a sad, dirty campus with fewer to clean; fewer students to provide hard work and service; fewer students whose bellies are fed, tuition paid, and rent in on time.
Why the university? Why not other programs and areas in which suffering is more affordable? We cannot take any more villainous acts, because we have suffered enough already.
And whose fault is it that they spent beyond their means, anyway? Why should our employment, education and community suffer because someone, other than the ones being affected, spent too much money? If it were our fault that we overspent, then it would only make sense for us to pay. But it's not our fault, so we really should not have to encounter such a tremendous downfall.
Well, hopefully this is just a sequel, not the beginning of a series, to the horror movie that is budget-slashing. If this is the beginning of a series, the least we can do is be entertained.
If we are going to live in financial squalor, at least pass the popcorn, and hope for a better ending.
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