The world is watching us. Today on campus more than 2,000 students gathered on the quad to protest against police brutality and increasing tuition fees ($5357 6 years ago, $12,192 right now, $22,068 by 2015-16— keep in mind this is a PUBLIC university). I said to my friends: what an interesting time to be an Aggie, to be protesting with hundreds of people, to be a part of the largest assembly the quad has ever had. I’m very grateful for the education I am receiving in Davis and it is unfortunate that I’ll be graduating with an enormous amount of debt that will take me years to pay off. Anything for education right? What I’m concerned about are those who will take our place as undergraduate students after we leave and move on to the next stages of our lives. My little sister will be a freshman in college next year. She too, will accumulate tuition debt, but because of tuition increases she will have more to pay off than me. There are plenty of problems with the UC system with no easy solutions, but we have to start somewhere right? Fight on.