Defeating costs: State appropriation could help 'U' students
When it votes to increase tuition every July, the University Board of Regents makes students' budgets a little tighter and parents' retirement plans a little further away. State appropriations play a big role in determining how great the annual tuition increases are. The past week was full of discussion among the State House and Senate about how much state universities will receive for fiscal year 1998. Gov. John Engler proposed a 2.5-percent increase over last year's appropriation - a figure that many representatives and senators want to augment. The legislature should work to increase the appropriation to keep tuition at state universities from skyrocketing to prohibitive levels.
Empty bowls: Students should join effort against hunger
On May 28th, Gov. John Engler will receive a message in the form of 50,000 empty bowls on the State Capitol steps. The bowls represent the estimated number of Michigan residents affected by Engler's steadfast refusal to request a food-stamp waiver from new welfare reform laws, which took effect last month. As of March 1, all childless, able-bodied food-stamp recipients found their eligibility suddenly reduced to only three months out of any three-year period, victims of the "three in 36 (months)" rule.
It's midnight, it's finals time - and you're due for a fix
Your hands are shaking. Your eyelids are drooping.
Clumsily, you pull change from your pocket and count it, hoping it will be enough to finance your fix.
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