“At times like this, when the entire UNC system is facing severe budget cuts and the cost of tuition continues to rise,” today’s Daily Tar Heel opines, “one can’t help but wonder who thought now would be a good time to raise student fees.”

Excellent point. Student fees increases are the stealth price increases on campus, and what’s worse, they often go for questionable purposes.

Incidentally, UNC-CH’s peers at NC State are also considering an increase in student fees.

Where, in all of this, is the self-appointed “voice of the students,” the UNC Association of Student Governments? Why are they not doing more to oppose this price increase? Could it be because they’ve helped themselves to the student-fees trough also? Or because they can’t get “business lunches” with legislators by opposing mundane fees increases on their campuses? Goodness, what are UNC students [forced to be] paying them for, anyway?