Nott What You'd Expected...: At Least the Future Bio Majors will be Pleased

2.22.2007

At Least the Future Bio Majors will be Pleased

My email today was ripe with irony. If by irony I mean the smouldering stench of capitalist filth and the money hungry Scientists that are driving me to complete and utter poverty.

As Bill Nye used to say- Consider the Following:

An email sent to all students/faculty at Luther College-

The Board also set next year’s comprehensive fee at $33,500, an increase of $2,840. This increase includes a move to bring room and board costs in line with those charged by other institutions. Currently Luther’s room and board charges are among the lowest in the region. This adjustment allows us to keep pace with what it actually costs to provide food and housing at Luther. I assure you our Financial Aid staff will continue to work with you so your Luther education remains affordable.

The comprehensive fee increase will address several other goals at Luther: increasing compensation for students who work on campus, achieving faculty compensation goals, building the pool of financial aid support for students, and continuing to improve residence hall living spaces on campus.

Thanks, Jerry. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the second paragraph. Compensation for students who work on campus? Two things: is this the Luther way of dealing with the Federal Minimum Wage increase- punishing us with a 9% fee increase (I wanna say the average is around 2-5% for most schools)? And secondly, why not just give me a 'get out of work study free' card instead of raping me and then making me tip the perpetrator?

I'm frustrated, poor, and looking more poor. Poorer if you will.

Enjoy your new 21 million dollar science building, bio majors. Us English majors? We'll be starving in two years. Give me a library....better yet, a laptop with wikipedia.... and i'm good to go.

I'm tempted to make one of those 'Current Federal Debt' or 'The War in Iraq is Costing Us...' tickers, but i'm too tired and illiterate to work it out.

Things I could have purchased with the money spent on Luther next year: