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Thursday,
February 19, 2004 |
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Frogs
ponder money issues
Carlos
Alvarado is an education graduate student from Fort
Worth.
As
a freshman, 10984 had a name. He was a naïve young
lad, who waived with a heavy heart to his parents as they
drove away. He walked into Milton Daniel Hall, free to
make the decisions and live the life that would shape
his persona. Tuition was only around $330 per class hour
then, and his semester cost at Milton Daniel was only
around $900. While he is glad TCU is still under the average
cost for comparable private universities, he wonders if
the Stafford Loan program will raise the limit on how
much one can borrow.
Fresh from Barbados, 10987 looks forward to her opportunity
to work on a graduate degree. She doesn’t have transportation,
so she moved into the Bellaire House Condominiums only
to find out that in the middle of May, she needs to find
a new place to live. The school gave her 10 extra days
from the end of finals, as a courtesy, to move out.Unfortunately,
the only option she has is to move out at the end of April,
during a tough spell at school, because it would be difficult
to find a place that would let her move in mid-month.
Because she has no transportation, she has to find a place
close to TCU that she can afford, or live on campus year
round which she cannot afford without taking out another
loan.
10874 had his car broken into, and all he got was a police
report verifying his car was broken into. The solution
for his problem: Build a fence around the TCU property.
People who want to come onto our campus to break into
our students’ property will have to climb the fence
or walk around it. The students who can’t find anywhere
to park on the TCU property had better start working out
on the climbing wall in the University Recreation Center
if they hope to get to class on time. He hopes that whatever
his insurance doesn’t cover, he can cover with whatever
money is left over from his student loans.
10467 reads the Skiff and can’t figure out why fees
collected from students — to be used for the students’
sake by the Student Government Association — must
be used to buy a new SuperFrog suit. She loves SuperFrog
but can’t understand why the university’s sports
marketing department doesn’t pay for the new suit.
Is it not TCU that benefited from having that very suit
all over the nation’s television screens? Is it not
TCU that has seen an increase in licensing fees as a result?
Yet, products the program uses to make it more visible
are not funded by the department that is supposed to market
them. She wonders how much of her student loan was used
to make such a purchase.
Driving around campus on her way to sign more student
loan papers, 10989 can’t find a parking space that
is not on an illegal side street. She just wishes that
when she finally gets parked, walks across campus and
gets to the bathroom, the school would at least have purchased
better toilet paper. |
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