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UC college students want
a say in books
Not too long ago, the UC system has began to implement “Inclusive Entry,” which provides the price of course content material to college students’ tuition except they choose out by a sure deadline, and takes away college students’ proper to decide on how one can entry their textbooks.
Though they're marketed to avoid wasting college students cash, college students usually discover methods to entry textbooks in libraries or on-line without cost, and 66% of scholars have skipped shopping for a textbook. Worth transparency is vital for giving college students the knowledge they should make choices based mostly on their very own monetary functionality. Because of this, the costs in fact supplies must also be disclosed on the category schedule in order that college students know the price of the course earlier than they determine to enroll.
College students must be knowledgeable and allowed to make their very own choices about their textbooks.
Bella Ibarra
Berkeley
Oakland eviction
energy is ironic
As a longtime multifamily property proprietor in Oakland, I used to be to notice that Oakland has begun evicting the homeless from the Wooden Avenue encampment.
I and plenty of different property house owners are owed tens of 1000's in unpaid lease, however eviction was taken away as an possibility because of the emergency order. Ironic, isn’t it?
David Kirk
Orinda
To vary gun legal guidelines,
deal with legislators
The Nashville college shooter fired 156 rounds earlier than being killed. That very same day, a choose accepted a settlement to drop the minimal age for Tennesseans to hold handguns in public with no allow to 18 — two years after laws set the age at 21.
On April 4, Gov. DeSantis signed a invoice with solely NRA members current that eliminates licensing necessities for Florida residents to hold a hid firearm in most public locations.
Our “well-regulated militia” must be extra “well-regulated.” To happen, we want legislators and judges that aren’t beholden to the NRA. Vote just for candidates who don’t settle for NRA donations.
For these believing it's a societal or psychological well being difficulty, good luck fixing these. For many who insist on throwing extra weapons into the equation, we’ve executed that for many years, and look the place we're.
Specializing in rules and the legislators who make them is what we have to be higher at.
Barry Brynjulson
San Ramon
Tennessee punishes
legislators for his or her stand
Re: “Armed Louisville financial institution worker livestreamed assault that killed 5” (Web page A1, April 11).
What's flawed with this image? We now have on the one hand a younger, undoubtedly troubled, White man who was allowed to legally buy an assault rifle, capturing and killing or wounding 9 folks; on the opposite, we've got two positive and energized younger Black males who're expelled from the Tennessee Legislature for being ungentlemanly (learn: not previous White males) sufficient to make an enormous loud stink utilizing a bullhorn to protest easy accessibility to assault weapons.
What an obscenity that we're inundated every day with information of mass shootings, however the good previous boys gained’t relinquish energy by doing what's morally proper to cease the sale of weapons of battle to odd residents. It’s disgusting.
The excellent news is that Justin Jones has been reinstated to the Legislature and a Memphis panel voted Wednesday to reinstate Justin Pearson. They may dwell to battle one other day on behalf of a morally righteous trigger.
Jeanne Walpole
Kensington