To the Editors:

We, the students of Oberlin College, are outraged. Tuition at the Oberlin College costs approximately $37,181.34 annually.

With this money, one could buy a Volvo, a vacation home on Lake Erie, and a personal masseuse/cook and pedigree Shih Tzu, or attend a top-tier college with small classes and great professors.

Just hope those same brilliant and demanding professors don’t ask you to print out more than a few 10- page papers or want you to read more than two 60-page ERes articles per semester.

Our problem is we can’t print. We are puzzled as to why our print quota has disappeared despite the absurd increase in our tuition. How can we drop from 1,000 pages with no strings attached to 150 pages, each additional page costing seven cents? Where is the money going? Who do students need to speak to?

In other words, whose office do students need to picket to demand a fair print quota and an active role in the decision making process?

This quota decrease is as unrealistic as expecting a heroine addict to quit cold turkey: that’s what Methadone Clinics are for! When the quota was at its peak (1,000 pages) printing in A-Level was pathological.
How many printers broke down or ran out of ink or paper in the days prior to this draconian print quota issuance? If you, the College administration, promote a behavior that becomes compulsive, you must also be responsible for minimizing withdrawal symptoms.

This by no means diminishes the fact that Oberlin students deserve more for their money. We deserve to be made aware of what changes are being made and why.

—Ariel Duncan College junior
—Daniele Fogel College senior
—DeShaun Snead College senior