I have never considered myself as a activist or protester, but recently something came to light that motivated to do something. Recently I created a online petition to set up a student meeting with the president to discuss the recent budget cuts to HPU programs. I am trying to drum up support for using social media in hopes to bring awareness to the issue. Programs like the HPU cheer team have been successful in winning national titles for the last 10 years but HPU has canceled the competitions because of high cost of travel other programs like Arabic have been cut as well. I can understand that the university would need to make some budget cuts to its programs but the fact of the matter is the university is increasing our tuition and the announcements to the cuts were made close to the end of the semester. I believe that when it comes to this issues the university can not stand behind pr releases to justify their decisions. They need to be discussed in an open forum like a student hall meeting.
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I agree. The budget cuts were drastic and came out of nowhere. Terrible timing announcing the cheer cuts - right after they come back with more national titles. While HPU students very rarely rally together in support (or against) anything, I think this is one of the few things that will bring students together.
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