STOP STEALING FROM SUNY STUDENTS

SUNY students' tuition is being increased by appx $300 each semester. Originally, this money was going to be split 80/20 government/school, then the state assembly decided to change this to 90/10, meaning that of the extra $300 each student is paying, only $30 actually would benefit the school. Then, the state decided that not only were they going to take 100% of this money, they were going to further cut the budget of the SUNY system.

So, now, the NYS gov't is taking a brand new income of 427,398(total SUNY enrollment)*$300, or,

$128,219,400 each semester

and using it to bail out the state debt. Debt that was created by irresponsible behaviour by the higher ups who should have known better.

Why should the SUNY students be bailing out the state for mistakes they did not make? How does it make sense to borrow from future generations WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION in order to save those who made irresponsible choices? Can you afford to sit idly by and allow this to happen?

Please do understand, that a lack of action on your part IS TACET APPROVAL. By doing nothing you are ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN.

Please, please, please, take action, visit this site:

http://studentassembly.org/

sign the petition, and spread the word.

join these facebook groups:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44475689714

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49311778620

set your facebook status to spead the word, twitter about it, blog about it, and help the cause.

Re-post the same facebook and twitter status multiple times, it is more likely to show up on people's feeds then.

Please, make a difference.