Ok, there they go again! LOL, I simply cannot understand how some folks will cause others to be deprived of their right to study. Recently, UPR announced that they would increase their credit cost and the student body voted to go on strike. Considering that the cost has been kept down compared to many private schools in Puerto Rico, it is still a bargain. Many university students have gotten too use to low cost and when everything goes up (books, forms, equipment, professor salary, etc, etc) they scream when their credit cost goes up too. I remember back in the early 1980s, I was going to the InterAmerican in Aguadilla and the cost was $55-$65 per credit while it was still $15 at the UPR. When it went up to $20-$25 per credit at UPR for a baccalaureate degree the student body paralyzed the Rio Piedras campus and even stopped and harassed other students that really wanted to study. What did it get the student body? Nothing, the leadership was kicked out and many were delayed in their pursuit of higher education. My graduate degree cost the government $657.00 per class for a total of 10 classes, 3 credits each, $219 per credit, a total cost of $6570. I was lucky, but in one case, I had to pay for one class out of my pocket that I was forced to repeat and these kids are complaining about $30 to $40 per credit? Oy voy!
history repeats its self again!
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