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Letter to the Editor: Robin Hood? More like Karl Marx
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Usually I pick up a copy of the Arbiter to get me through my 7:40 a.m. class. But this past Thursday morning when I read the headline “President Bob Kustra echoes philosophy of Robin Hood” I wanted to skip that class and go have a word with Mr. Kustra. When commenting on Boise State’s solution to the lack of grant dollars available for Idaho students Kustra said, “What do we do? We take from those (students) who can afford and redistribute to those who need it.”
I could hardly believe what I was reading, did he seriously say we need to takemoney from one student and give it to another? As I read more it got better. When asked about double digit tuition increase Kustra said, “If we increase tuition by double digits it must be returned to need-based students.”
At this point the philosophy of Kustra ceased to echo that of Robin Hood and sounded more like Karl Marx.
In the four years I have attended Boise State University I have never questioned the integrity of President Kustra until now. Not only does he want to take from the “haves” and give to the “have-nots” he’s proud of the fact that he can accomplish this as he says “…quietly as public institutions and without fanfare.”
It is not ethical to make a hard working student pay more in tuition and then turn around and give his or her hard earned dollars to a “need-based” student. A student pays tuition for THEIR education not somebody else’s. If students want to give to the general scholarship fund they should do so out of their own free will instead of being forced to by university administration.
I end with a thought provoking quote from Howard W. Hunter, “Both have lost their freedom. Those who “have,” lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who “have not,” lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got “something for nothing,” and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift.” Why in the world would Kustra submit university students to such a lose lose situation?
Nick Drzayich is a junior studying communication.
This Kustra character sounds like he is in bed with Obama one too many nights a week.
Why isn't Drzayich writing for the arbiter? He should have his own column and be the real watchdog of the university. With that insight, could write for any daily universe paper in the country.