Come on.
Posted: March 18th, 2009 | Author: hannah | Filed under: Coooome on, Really?, Ridiculous! | 2 Comments »Come on, Daily Tar Hole. I know this is a letter to the editor, and I know this chump of a sophomore probably delights in all of the NC State anger he is eliciting, but I’m gonna get mad anyway. Implying that out of state students are smarter, right whatever. But sending your low-caliber kids to NC State? Sorry, we don’t want them either! NC State’s rankings HAVEN’T slipped in the last few years. Obviously it’s not “our kind” who make you suck. Maybe it’s all those undeserved A’s? Okay stopping. That’s too much from me already.
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Accept more out-of-state students in budget deficit
Published: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
TO THE EDITOR:
I read on The Daily Tar Heel’s Web site that Gov. Bev Perdue plans to cut 5.5 percent of the University system’s funding for next year (“Governor announces 5.5 percent budget cut for University system,” March 17).
We should use this opportunity to our advantage.
When the state decreases its obligation of funding to the University, we should likewise admit fewer in-state students and admit more out-of-state students.
Already two other great public schools, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, admit around 10 percent more out of state students.
If we were to increase our out-of-state student admittance by 10 percent of our student body we would be looking at an increase in tuition revenue of tens of millions of dollars.
Not to mention the academic standards of our University could increase dramatically because of this out-of-state increase.
This would generate more money to help offset our budget cuts and raise our academic standards by eliminating positions for the lower end of in-state applicants and admitting more qualified out-of-state applicants.
Even the less qualified in- state applicants will most likely defer to other great UNC system schools, like N.C. State University, thus raising their academic quality.
UNC has slipped a few places in national college rankings in the last couple of years. I think it’s time we corrected that.
Sophomore
Psychology
here is the letter I wrote to the DTH…hopefully they will print it.
I wonder if Benjamin Brumley ever trips on the sidewalk because his nose is stuck up so far in the air he can’t see the ground. His idea to increase the number of out of state students due to budget constraints is laughable. The tax revenue generated by North Carolina citizens that supports our school is not only from this year. My parents have been paying into the system for much longer to support this university and the UNC system. Just because this year less of that money is going to the school does not discount all the other years that my parents, and other in-staters’ parents have been paying taxes to run this university. Maybe accepting more out of state students would raise our national rankings, but the purpose of this university first and foremost is to educate the people of North Carolina. I certainly wouldn’t want to deny a North Carolina citizen an UNC-Chapel Hill education just so we can let in more pretentious out-of-staters like Benjamin. I get so tired of out-of-staters constantly boasting of their superior intellects. There are enough out-of-state students already, and I don’t think the extra money is worth the extra egos.
hey so i posted my letter on the dth website underneath the letter they ended up printing and benjamin brumley responded with a comment…you should read the championing of NC State I did at the end of my response to him.
http://www.dailytarheel.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/don_t_raise_out-of-state_student_enrollment_cap-1.1621249