Don’t punish college students

Re “Hardship predicted for students,” April 17

Why would state budget cuts mean reducing 27,000 students? Can’t we just ask the well-paid professors to teach a third class each quarter? Can’t these academics be asked to increase their student contact hours? What is it now: Professors have to meet with students, either in office hours or in class, only 15 hours a week? That doesn’t sound too bad to the rest of us taxpaying working stiffs.

Alex Taylor

Northridge

I guess it’s fair that California universities should face budget cuts. I only hope that the governor and legislators don’t cut the budgets of law enforcement and the prisons. That is typically where the undereducated go for their secondary education.

Chick Rapport

Garden Grove

As a high school student, I have already seen the effect of budget cuts on my campus: fewer returning teachers for the next school year, a reduction of school supplies, et cetera. But, living in a low-income family, I have always maintained hope that my parents’ income would not hinder continuing my education. However, this looming “slash [of] higher education funding” impedes my path to college as well as that of thousands of others. I hope Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger realizes that he will not only take away funding for schools but the hope of many students for a better future provided by a college education.

Janet Guan

Alhambra