Pacific Index

Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: Opinion

Everyone received an e-mail recently from none other than Phil Creighton stating that tuition will be increasing next year as part of the natural order of things.

When was the last time your got an e-mail from the president any way?

That question aside, the increase does seem reasonable, especially since it's really only a couple more thousand dollars a year, and it's directly paying for our education.

However, when the tuition went up last year, surely everyone knows someone who left Pacific and cited a lack of funding on their part as the reason why they wouldn't return.

Creighton's message is strong: we're getting a top-notch education, and we're going to have to pay for it. He cites Pacific as having a growing reputation, and as a school that has seen unprecedented success in the recent past.

For those of us who pay attention to what the university as a whole is doing to improve itself, it's hard to disagree with what our president has said. In the short time that many of us have been here we have seen, heard, or had sleep interrupted by numerous construction projects. We've witnessed the changes.

And it's hard to remember what it was like before we had two new residence halls. But we won't forget down the road that we were a part of a changing university.

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