| March 2000 | Issue 3, Volume 7 | Election Info for SAMRC Members |
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Candidate for VP External | ||||
MARK SOLLIS I believe it is time to stop breaking the backs of students. For the last half-decade I have watched as tuition has skyrocketed and the workload and life schedules of students approach the inhumane. The financial burden of students, the future economic backbone of our society, will soon be insurmountable and the barriers to enter our school system will only increase. A tuition freeze is a necessity. Colleges and universities must be held accountable to an established cap, any potential loopholes must be sealed. It then becomes imperative that we work to pull tuition costs back into a more comfortable range. Students are not looking for a free ride — what we are looking for is a lifestyle bordering on the manageable. I also believe there is a process that can lead to our wishes coming true. We need to ensure we are responsible within our own
organization. As a student government we must not act as a government. Unreasonable expenditures are not acceptable. We
must listen to our fellow students — we must see ourselves as selected individual representatives of the whole
— not as members above the whole. If we tie ourselves to responsible financial behaviour, our case for increased post-secondary funding
strengthens. Our case is legitimate — now we must legitimize our wishes in the eyes of others
— others with the financial control that influences us all.
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