Keep it down: Tuition increase should remain low
Budgets get tighter, checking accounts get smaller and plans for retirement move back a few more months. The July University Board of Regents meeting marks the annual discussion of the University's budget for the 1997-98 academic year. Along with the budget comes the inevitable question: How much will the regents augment tuition? The University's healthy economic picture allows for a minor increase. In previous years, a significant drop in the severity of tuition increases occurred - a pattern the regents should continue.
School dimes: Funding will benefit special education
In one budgetary swoop, Gov. John Engler has a chance to reverse his long-standing abuse of Michigan's public schools. The school-funding package passed by the state House and Senate last week delivers substantially more money to schools in the wake of a Michigan Supreme Court decision favoring local districts. However, the debate surrounding school funding may be more remarkable for proposals left on the cutting-room floor.
Ineffective insulation: TV-rating system does not protect children
Last Wednesday, many television networks surrendered to family advocacy groups in a settlement to upgrade the current television-rating system that has been in effect since January. Though the arrangement was voluntary, the networks caved into a compromise - possibly to get some peace from legislative pressure and a hailstorm of criticism from parents' groups. Instating a rating format may seem to be a positive step, but it is misdirected, ineffective and could easily be misused.
The annoying dilemmas of working for the public
The scene: Arby's at 9:55 p.m. the night before my last final exam for Winter term. My rattled nerves caused by my utter lack of studying in the face of exam hell convinced me that eating something would help me pull the all-nighter (yeah, right) necessary to ace the final.
And I wanted a Jamocha shake.
'Band-Aid solutions' do not supplant parents' roles
By some standards, children are being better protected today than ever.
Last week, tobacco companies agreed to remove Joe Camel's image from their advertising, on the theory that the suave, nicotine-addicted beast encouraged kids to smoke.
07-16-97
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