UCLA Uses Student's Fee to Pay for Social Justice

Source: zerohedge.com

The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has hired 18 students to combat 'social injustices' and 'privilege and oppression', they are being paid $13 an hour. Hosted by the UCLA Intergroup Relation Program, this is a year long internship where the students facilitate workshops on social justice issues in exchange for leadership training and compensation. The student interns are called diversity peer leaders and they are scheduled to work between 30 to 45 hours per quarter.

The DPLs pay is funded from a student services fee which attending students are required to pay aside from their tuition. One student called the program 'a project of the Department of Redundancy Department'. He added that the 'goals of this project seem to already be facilitated by multiple other programs, groups and systems' on campus.

Some students bring up valid arguments that the money should not be taken from a fee that the students are forced to pay. They also suggest that there is a much better use for the money instead of catering to the social justice movement.

The cost of going to college / university is unaffordable without burdening students with mandatory fees. With college graduates amassing debts that they are unable to pay based on recent studies. They are making higher education a losing proposition as many students drop out before they attain a degree or the ones that do graduate are unable to find viable employment and they are also saddled with a large loan.