UH overcrowded?

Okay, so I pick up today's Honolulu Advertiser, and on the front page I see the headline "UH semester starts with fewer classes, more anxiety"...Now what is all this anxiety from? The fact that the state cut out 70+ million bucks from their budget. Because many classes--and faculty--have been cut, classrooms are overcrowded. So here's my question: Why are we--I'm a UH student as well--paying so much for tuition???

Now you're probably thinking to yourself, "I'm paying the tuition to get an education and support my university you dumbshit!" Correct, we can't expect the UH system to support itself, right? I mean, how can they reduce the cost of tuition AND address the rise of enrollment, with budget cuts? It appears to be necessary...BUT, it's not.

The reason why the UH system is so broke can be summed up with a single word: waste. We have allowed this STATE institution to have too much power. They can do whatever the fuck they want.

A month ago I went to a newly built classroom at UH Manoa (new being less than 5 years old). In this classroom, there were 20 electrical plugs...of these, 10 electrical plugs worked! I thought, alright, maybe it's just this room. The next day we held class in a different room. Again, there were 20 electrical plugs, but this time only 8 worked! Now let me explain how this is "waste".

In Hawaii, we have this idea of Ohana...you scratch my back, I scratch yours. So what happens is UH sells the contract for this building to one of their "friends". This company gets the contract not because they are the best on the island, but more because "eh, I went school wit one guy, who went to dis school where he wen meet one nada guy dat knows da head guy of dis school". And so the work is completed and UH finds out that it's a shit job...but guess what, "no can make stink. I know da guy, who know da guy, who know da boss of da company." And so the work is left as a shit job.

Now this is just one example of "waste", and unless you guys ask for it, I won't bore you with more details. I will tell you what we can do about it, though...Stop going to UH.

WHOA WHOA, what? Stop going to UH? The only way that we, as students, can get any type of power is by going on a "strike" of sorts. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but somewhere the student body lost their clout. Remember, the University is providing us a service...not the other way around. And yet we follow them like sheep. They waste our money and we just look the other way because "ah, there's nothing I can do about it..." But I really think there is. We have to show the UH system that we will not tolerate this.

I'm just a single blogger with no followers, but I really think that passing these type of ideals can help society, in general. UH is lacking in providing quality education...so lets do something about it. Whoever reads this, I don't know who, please tell other UH students to take a look. They may not share the same philosophy, but that's okay...Just trying to spread some awareness.