To the editor:

Fortunately, the writer’s opinions remind us why students should continue to appeal to legislators and administrators to equip us with the adequate education we must put to use upon graduation. If the protesters exuded a “palpable sense of entitlement and the disillusioned sense of priority that plagues this generation” it’s because not everyone who makes up this generation has the privileges and means that allow for complacency and luxury to pick which injustices they must speak out against.

The campus is made up of individuals from different cultural upbringings facing a legacy of educational institutions that are historically and currently still apathetic to the diversity of students that attend these establishments; consequently, creating unrealistic homogeneous experiences augmented by statements like “education is still massively subsidized.” If $500 isn’t too much for you then we “with the demented sense of reality” ask you to “recognize there are other players, factors and consequences involved” that don’t always allow for us, your fellow classmates, to obtain an additional $500 for tuition.

I applaud your candor and attempt at a quasi-Freudian analysis on individuals and social problems by touting words like “narcissist-oriented” and “degenerates.” However, legislators and educational institutions as harbingers of hope must engage in non-ethnocentric dialogues that help us as a post-racial generation removed from the day-to-day realities of civil rights marches, women rights struggle, Jim Crow and Jane Crow laws that discern the consequence of not understanding the history and legacy that entitles this generation.
Dalitso Ruwe