To the editor:

Has anybody else noticed that with all the talk about KU tuition raises, KU officials have said very little concerning out-of-state student tuition raises. The only figure I read stated from KU officials concerning out-of-state tuition said it was to raise 7 percent to 10 percent. Now let me get this straight, our son’s and daughter’s tuition is to rise 100 percent in the next few years, while out of state tuition is only rising 10 percent. Does this seem equitable?

Our native Kansan KU students have subsidized the non-Kansan student’s tuition for years, but this vast difference is astronomical. If the subsidy were to stay the same great bargain it already is, the great bargain it has been for decades, the non-Kansan’s out-of-state tuition would at least have to increase the same 100 percent.

Most of these out-of-state students come to KU because the out-of-state tuition at KU is much lower than the in-state tuition at their home state universities. I would think that in the hard economic times Kansans are facing, the powers that be would make the out-of-state KU student start paying more, not comparatively reducing their tuition. There are many deserving native Kansan high school graduates that KU could help with tuition breaks instead of giving non-Kansans such a discount.

KU is a state university. Let Kansas taxpayers and Kansan KU tuition payers help our own and finally make out-of-staters pay their fair share.

Mark Umholtz,

Lawrence