State Colleges

It’s disheartening to be forced to pay more to get less of an education. As a graduate student at Cal State L.A., I recently discovered that nearly a year of hard work toward my thesis has been wasted. My principal adviser was terminated and none of the remaining instructors have the expertise to advise me in my chosen specialty. Additionally, numerous elective classes, both undergraduate and graduate, have been cut, and many student services were eliminated.

Now I am told that I must pay an additional $72 to cover the increased registration fee. When I began to work on my master’s degree I expected that the quality of education available to me would not deteriorate. As I watch it do just that, I can’t help but feel that California is reneging on the contract I made with the state when I committed myself to obtaining a degree at a Cal State university.

In school, I was always taught that it is wrong to cheat--so why is the government cheating me?

LAURA ALBERT-WHITE

Monrovia