To the Editor:
Week after week I keep reading and hearing about Fairfield’s financial problems, and this past Friday I discovered my own. Those glorious two pages of financial aid were conveniently lacking some zeros. Unless there is a new payment option called blood-I don’t see how tuition for next year will get paid. What happened? I thought athletic programs were cut to reallocate the money to the students?
Where does our money go? Well I suppose it is easier first to say where it does not go. It does not go to football, or hockey. It does not go to permanently employing well respected and dedicated professors like Dr. Rose. It does not go to the College of Arts and Science. I think I sat in more comfortable chairs in my publicly funded high school. If ever there were a torture so great, it is a turbo on such a chair. It does, however, spend money on making parking lots (and then spends money tearing them out a few months later). It does spend money on construction, which is everywhere and will never seem to be finished. It does spend money on high-tech speeding equipment for security on a campus that is filled with speed bumps and stop signs.
Quite simply, Fairfield is successfully ripping students off. How can we have a higher tuition increase percentage than Harvard university? Though it is the students that are suffering now, it will be the university that will suffer when they are seeking alumni donations. Recent events have created a breeding ground of future disgruntled alums. One day I’m sure I will receive a letter or a phone call asking to give back, of which I will reply simply : “HA HA.”
Sincerely, Jessica Foscolo ’04
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