Colorado Mesa University (CMU) students have led the charge on a brand new tactic: raising tuition.
Students are fighting for this increase because debt is now seen as trendy. Across the nation, young people are showing off their debts to improve their social standing.
“If I pay more for school, it means I learned more. We aren’t trying to get the school to change or approve anything, we just want to pay more money,” an Art student said.
Concerns from opposing parties have come to light. Some say that students should at least fight for more parking along with this and others do not want it to happen at all. Those who do not want the tuition increase have started multiple protests.
Protesters can be found outside of every academic building on campus and it has turned violent. In an effort to break up the crowd of students throwing rocks at each other, staff started giving away food sources in the buildings. Many students ran off with the food like gremlins.
“So basically some rich dude said that spending more on college will get you where you want to be in life and everyone is acting like his word is law. I don’t understand the thought process of those who want the tuition increase, but they are convinced,” Psychology major Jane Doe said.
The American dream is to have enough money to support yourself and your lifestyle and when monetarily successful people give advice, people tend to follow it closely.
“A rich person that I look up to said it, so it must be true. I want to follow directly in their footsteps because every person in America could be rich if they would just pay more for college. If you’re not willing to put yourself in debt to reach your goals, you’re probably just lazy,” Business major Clarice Trustfund said.
The administration is deliberating over the request, but are hesitant because they think it may come back to bite them. The university’s official statement noted that enough student support will garner this change.
Current tuition rates are higher than ever before around the nation and some schools such as Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have taken the student’s tuition increase suggestion and implemented it.
“Please stop, I am so tired of capitalism. Please,” begged a Philosophy student.
As fights about the issue become more widespread across campus, there has been an uptick in class absences which has caused faculty to call on the administration to make a decision. Many faculty members agreed that if they were not getting a raise out of this, they just want it to be over.
