Letters to the Editor

Who cares? Let them pay

Parking at Boise State has always been a touchy issue with many students. Well, I think I have just been violated.

Instead of looking at alternatives first, it seems the Parking and Transportation department, along with ASBSU and the bureaucrats within the university just want to gouge the students and staff of Boise State

I can understand a justified increase of 4 or 5 percent, but 15 percent is down right ridiculous! If Parking and Transportation need such an extreme increase, it tells me they are inefficient, ineffective and wasteful.

I would also like to know who and where are these “peer institutions” Jared Everett compares BSU to. Boise State has the funds, but unfortunately, funding is being misallocated and ASBSU, (another ineffective organization) isn’t working with Parking and Transportation. Instead of increasing student fees, they could be cut from, oh lets see, the Children’s Center for starters.

I’m not picking on parents, I am one too, but I could not afford to use the facility. Last year it received $5 dollars for every full time student, but the students who use it receive no discounted rate.

Offering the Boise City Bus, carpooling, or “Commuterride” is a nice way to shift responsibility; I see it as a cop-out. Maybe in a more perfect world these suggestions would hold weight, but we’re not a perfect world and they don’t. Conflicting schedules is the main killer of that idea.

Before Parking and Transportation takes the easy road to deal with its inadequacies and gouges students and faculty, they should spend a little more time and think of some plausible solutions. You never know what you can come up with unless you try.

Gregory K. Funk

Boise, Idaho

Idahoans must start heading to the polls

I’m writing to express my sincere concern regarding the voter turn out in the primary election on May 23, 2006. If the people of Idaho don’t stand up and take notice of this election, there is a good chance that we could end up with federal representatives who do not truly represent the ideals and concerns of the people of Idaho. It is a sad fact that extremists from both parties are the most vocal – and get to the polls the best.

Do we really want an extremist from either party representing the people of Idaho in Washington DC?

Anabel Manchester

Boise, Idaho

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