Increase in UC Student Fees

It’s bad enough that the university regents hiked undergraduate fees 40% when living costs have risen less than 10%, but to add insult to injury they’ve “moved to limit enrollment growth through tougher entrance standards” (“UC Regents Hike Fees,” Page 1, Feb. 15).

There may be a justification for limiting upper-level college enrollment to those combining superior intelligence with successful parents, as it were, but when the already high standards and costs are raised beyond what has been historically deemed appropriate, one has to question the regents’ true motives. Could we be seeing a twist from egalitarianism to elitism on the part of the state?

OLIVER BERLINER

Beverly Hills