Bruning - just shut up, bend over, and take it like a good democrat from Doyle, just as your ASM and UC predecessors have done for the last two years.

Actually, I'm not a democrat...

and why should I just bend over and take it? forcing people to "just accept it" is kinda fascist, don't you think?

Reading that accusation and directive into the first post is kinda missing the point, don't you think?

John-
You've told us where the money is not coming from, but that does not answer the question on the minds of many of us. I want to know exactly, in detail, where every penny of that money for sending letters to parents is coming from. I'll be checking back here periodically this afternoon to see your response.

In the mean time, I'm going to run down to the Registrar's office to have my mailing information witheld from these clowns. If anyone wants to join me, fill out the form below and take it to the address listed:

http://registrar.wisc.edu/forms/student/form_files/uwferpa.pdf

if the first poster was being sarcastic, then yes, i did miss the point.

i'm not going to tell you where it's coming from, because we honestly have not worked out the details yet, and I don't want to say anything if other parties aren't totally down with it. if you want to send me your contact info, i'll be sure to let you know as soon as we do. again though, we WILL NOT send letters using ssfc or any other funds derived from tuition or student fees. if we do, i expect a full uproar from the student body (even though most students don't even give half a shit when their tuition goes up $500 in a year).

and we already have the mailing list we're going to use. changing your mailing address would do nothing even if we got the list from the registrar's office a month from now, as we're sending it to your parents and not you personally (if you still don't know why after reading the article, reread it). so go ahead if you want to do that, i don't mean to be an ass about it, but it's really not going to change anything.

sorry, the 5th post (the last one) was mine, i forgot to sign it.

I still think this idea is retarded... but please tell me you at at least weeded out the graduating seniors and are not sending letters to their parents. Why the hell would they care? Or what about parents who have more than one child here? are they going to receive multiple letters?

Maybe not everyone complains about tution going up $500 dollars because they will make that money back in a week with their college education. As Wiley has said, your education here will make you quite a bit more money than you would have made without it.(He claims in excess of a million, but I would believe it would be quite lower) Sure it is good to keep government in check, but sometimes you just need to realize that some arguments just shouldn't be. I agree that money is misappropriated within our school and government, but most of the push just seems to be, "don't raise tuition, get money elsewhere." When it should be, let's find a way to save money on campus and cost the state less.

For sure we won't be sending it to the parents of seniors, hopefully not to repeat parents, but we might send it to incoming freshmen's parents.

ASM is a lot smarter than it's given credit for.

It's a long way to competent from what I give them credit for.