I've always said that those involved at Universities are some of the stupidest people in this country. I took issue with the PC Madness at the U of Winnipeg just two days ago. The University of Manitoba engineering students are now pushing the envelope of common sense!

March 8th, 2007

Engineering students at the University of Manitoba voted 64 per cent in favour Wednesday night of hiking their own tuition fees by a whopping 38 per cent.

Global TV Winnipeg said the increase was approved in a two-day referendum that left the student body divided on the issue.

This was a sign, to some, that students were starting to realize that the quality of their education correlates to it's expense. Thus, by raising their tuition fee's, they were taking personal responsibility for their own education. Well, that's what I thought.
March 29, 2007:

CHANTING and singing, many with faces painted red, more than 100 University of Manitoba engineering students rallied at the Legislature on Thursday to demand higher government funding.

They poured off two school buses, lugging along placards and effigies of the faculty's red lion symbol. [...]

And they lustily bellowed "we can, we can, we can, we can demolish 40 beers," as though that would persuade the Doer government to unlock the provincial treasury.

The engineering faculty says it needs $3.5 million more in annual funding to maintain a quality education for its 1,100 students.

Seriously, this should be criminal, it's tantamount to extortion! It's further evidence that the tuition freeze needs to go, now!

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