by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Frank D. Russo

As I was about to write an article about yesterday’s events in Sacramento, I decided to first complete my news and opinion digest for the monring. In this morning’s LA Times, I ran across an article, that caused me to keep saying to myself, “Tell me this isn’t true. It can’t be.”

Take a moment to read the Times article: “Cal State moves up application deadlines: Officials hope students will miss deadlines, easing the effect of budget cutbacks.”

Is this what the great state of California is coming to? I thought, apparently naively, that we celebrated and cherished the desire of our young wanting to further their education and attend institutions of higher learning. Instead, because of the budget proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger for next year, and difficulties the California State University (CSU) system expects to have with cut backs, they are, with premeditation (but propbably without malice aforethought) advancing the deadline for applying and hoping that many students miss the deadline.