This is incredible - especially after the first couple of minutes when they start tumbling over each other.
For the current academic year, SUNY’s four-year campuses have incurred a collective $210 million decrease in state support (a 14% cut—the largest percentage cut in the entire state budget). To offset about one-third of this cut, the SUNY Board of Trustees reluctantly raised in-state undergraduate tuition by $310 at mid-year. The board was concerned students would not have access to the classes they need, and directed campuses to use these tuition dollars to ensure continued access to instruction.
Last week, in what can only be described as a breach of public trust, the state legislature accepted Governor Paterson’s proposal to sweep 90% of the tuition increase into the state’s coffers. No other state in the nation has ever placed a tax on tuition, but New York just did. Of the $310 additional tuition dollars you paid for the spring semester, only $31 went for education expenses, while $279 went into the state coffers-the equivalent of a 900% sales tax! And for graduate and out-of-state students, the tax was even higher.
Email a friend of mine received from SUNY Fredonia.
Holy shit, that’s messed up.
Dear Adam Lambert,
1. As an openly gay man, you must be “unapologetically flamboyant” at all times. No going “hetero,” or “stripped down,” even if it’s for a Motown song.
5. Please re-consider your gay-hating handlers, particularly 19 Records. They clearly have too much control over your creative choices. Could that album cover have been any more straight and predictable?
6. Not to mention all those censored moments on American Idol. Did you really think we wouldn’t notice who was pulling the strings on the vapid song choices and dull presentations of “Ring of Fire,” “Black or White,” “Mad World,” and “Change is Gonna Come”
(via sylvysparrow)
Drunk Ewoks for the win!
