Bookstore Prices

A long, long time ago, when I was in Primary School, I was able to go to the Bookstore with 2000 pesos and be able to buy anything. Those were the good old days when prices were low and stayed the same. It is a shame that they have increased a lot in the last few years.

For example, pizza. I remember that it cost 1000 pesos, and today it is 2500 more or less. I mean, not even an oil barrel increases that much in such short time. That is an absurd hyperinflation that must be stopped.

The Bookstore is a place where many students buy their snacks (a vital energy source for learning minds). It is unfair that some of them have to pass hunger just because the Bookstore prices are TOO DAMN HIGH! To fight it, I propose a boycott of all the Bookstore's products until they start to lower their prices.

Although it may seem like a lot, that is not the only problem that the Bookstore has. It lacks two major things that every store must have: organization and space. It is an extremely small area in which students struggle to enter and leave. This is really interesting because the bookstore wins a lot o money, and it seems that they don't use it for a good cause. They should expand their space and offer a greater variety of products.

It should also be much more organized. I mean a metal concert is more organized than that store. There is serious pushing and shoving occurring within its walls, and in a space that small (around 6 square meters) more than 15 people risk their lives.

It is because of all these reasons that I propose the boycott. It will make the Bookstore realize that they are not the only ones that influence decisions, that they cannot rip us off every time we buy a piece of candy, that we have a voice! So join the boycott and make a change.

Racist Universities?

I recently read the article Why race matters in school admissions by two very important people in the college industry. They are both deans from very important Ivy League schools. Martha L. Minow is from Harvard, and  Robert Post is from Yale. They were expressing their feelings about a situation they had with the Supreme Court, who was demanding them to ignore race when admitting students into their universities. After reading their arguments, I am obliged to agree with them.

 They started the article explaining how they accept students. "We admit students to accomplish two goals: to get the best possible students and to assemble the best possible class."- fourth paragraph. This basically tells us that they want a student group that has various points of view and that work together to achieve a higher level of education and understanding of the world. I absolutely agree with them in that matter because I believe that diversity is very important in student groups, especially in law schools where students are taught to cooperate with different ethnic groups. 

Throughout the article, the authors express their arguments against the Supreme Court as they explain that the circumstances of an applicant's life affect their character, which is an important part of the apllication process. Most of the time this is directly connected to the person's race. If universities start ignoring race in applications, they might not accept the best class possible. As the authors said, it "...would be a tragedy for legal education and for higher education generally."

For example, some students have recommendations in which it is expressed how they have surpassed obstacles in their life. These proofs of character are often attached to the person's race. "Essays and letters of recommendation are critical components of the application process at law schools." Without them, colleges will never truly know the people they are admitting. 

It is because of these reasons that I think race is very important in college aplications.