UCI Housing for Married Students Fills Key Need
Re UCI Protesters (March 8): I have a question: Do students nowadays believe that their primary function in school is to learn or is it to protest something they don’t like?
More and more it seems to be the latter, especially at our tax-supported colleges and universities. I am beginning to resent it mightily.
The current flap over UCI not permitting homosexual couples to live in campus family housing facilities is an example. The law says that persons of the same sex cannot marry. The University of California Board of Regents says that only married couples are allowed to live in the family housing complex. Period.
That doesn’t seem difficult to understand. So why do the “protesters” expect the chancellor to break the law and to violate university policy because they don’t agree with the law or the policy?
Like spoiled children, these so-called students block building entrances, build shantytowns on public property and waste valuable police resources in order to get lots of press coverage.
What they should be doing, if they truly believe in their cause, is to invest their time and talents in getting the laws and the policies changed. This would allow the serious students (who, thankfully, are in the vast majority) to pursue the education for which they (and their parents) are paying a lot of money.
RON WALKER
Huntington Beach
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