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Excessive price of faculty
hurts college students, households
I'm for pupil debt reduction, however this system introduced Wednesday doesn't handle the astronomical price of faculty.
Having three youngsters in faculty through the pandemic I used to be astounded at why the tutoring was the identical given that schools had been delivering distant schooling. My daughter began her senior 12 months at UC Berkeley yesterday. I phoned her and inquired, “So this will likely be like freshman 12 months, with every thing in individual?” She mentioned, “I solely have one in-person class and it's a lab.” So for $40,000 a 12 months, totally loaded with room, board, tuition and costs, my daughter has one class. She may very well be commuting and residing at residence. What sort of faculty expertise is that this?
Universities have discovered to save cash with distant schooling, and cost greater costs whereas having their price construction propped up via billions in COVID-19 reduction. This reinforcement cycle is hurting college students and the households supporting them.
Andrea Bloom
Pleasanton
Racist housing coverage
attracts little discover
There's a personal, off-campus housing co-op close to UC Berkeley that has declared that “White company aren't allowed in frequent areas.” I’d wish to know why this has not been reported on in native media. I really needed to discover this out from the NY Submit through Reddit. Additionally, why have our native authorized institutions not taken this to coronary heart?
You possibly can make certain that had the phrases Hispanic, Asian or Black been substituted for the phrase White within the referenced rule that the ACLU and a number of DAs could be screaming foul and submitting swimsuit. Within the referenced article a renter of combined race had his White father denied entry.
ACLU, Honest Housing, and so forth – the place are you? If discrimination is incorrect, isn’t reverse discrimination is incorrect as nicely?
Robert Drury
Fremont
Column twists local weather
statistics into lies
Re. “IRA gained’t cut back inflation or have an effect on local weather change,” Web page A7, Aug. 25:
Often, Marc Thiessen’s writing is, to steal a phrase from his August 25 column, “statistically indistinguishable from” lies. However in that very same column, he comes alarmingly near stating an essential truth.
Thiessen quotes local weather skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, who says, “Even when the U.S. went … to net-zero … it might cut back world temperatures in 2100 by simply 0.3 levels F.”
Sure, it’s essential to know that the US can't remedy the local weather disaster by itself. However does that imply to Thiessen (or Lomborg) that we must always do nothing? In fact not. We have to act, as does the remainder of the world, and as a number one polluter, our motion ought to assist spur everyone else to do their share as we are actually doing ours.
A 3-degree discount could be very useful and solely 10 instances Lomborg’s unachievable American contribution. With others following the American instance, the world can get there.
Merlin Dorfman
Livermore
Trump should be
held accountable
The superb article by Jamelle Bouie (“Letting Trump stroll to heal America is a ridiculous thought,” Web page A7, Aug. 27) addressed the topic of former President Donald J. Trump and what the lasting end result could be if Trump was by no means held accountable for his mishandling of extremely categorized paperwork and mendacity.
As a result of he held the very best place, he should even be held to the very best requirements, which he was not. So, to cite his favourite line: “Lock him up.”
Maryann Sheridan
Walnut Creek