Students react to budget cutbacks
With budget cuts occurring for the College of Arts and Sciences, not only teachers but students are being inconvenienced by the current strain on the college’s resources.
Students were told last week that teachers were being allotted only 250 copy pages per class taught for the rest of the semester. This immediately caused problems for students who now are forced to print their own tests and assignments.
In one Spanish class, students have to take quizzes and tests from the overhead and the Internet.
“It is aggravating because we now have to take all tests on loose leaf paper,” said Stephanie Pagitt, a mass communication sophomore. “It is just not convenient.”
Another student remarked that her teacher was so agitated with the paper shortage that he e-mailed the class a quiz at home instead of taking it in class.
“It is ridiculous that a state university doesn’t have money to give students proper facilities in the classroom,” said Cristina Ippolito, a sociology and Latin junior.
Not only are students aggravated, but they want to know what happened to all of the money.
“If they can’t even afford paper, where is all the money going?” said Lauren Wilbert, a mass communication sophomore.
Kit Price, a mass communication junior, said he is having a problem printing the material himself. He also said he did not understand how teachers would be contacted without them having a phone.
“The availability of teachers is crucial,” Price said.
Price also said problems like this should not occur in the central management of a college.
“Increased tuition with less benefits is not making much sense,” Price said.
Psychology senior, Erin Thompson, said she is inconvenienced in her French class because she cannot write on quizzes anymore.
“It puts an extra strain on students,” Thompson said. “It is an inconvenience. Not only do we have to buy scantrons for tests, but now we have to buy extra blue books for quizzes. It’s kind of annoying.”
Samantha Sieber