Opinion: Make UCs affordable again for all of us
We used to call them “Hey, Martha” stories.
Now there aren’t enough hubbies or Marthas reading the newspapers. But clearly there are still some Hey, Martha stories out there, because last month the excellent longtime education reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Teresa Watanabe, wrote one so compelling that the reader response to it changed a young man’s life in a forever way.
Except he couldn’t go, ‘cause it costs way too much money to attend the University of California these days. There’s the $14,000 in annual tuition, a high enough hurdle — but it’s the $38,000 total cost what with food and lodging and a giant bureaucracy to feed. A system that used to be, if not quite free, so cheap it forces old grads such as me to spin almost impossible-sounding yarns about the $637 annual tuition of the mid-1970s.
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