Wednesday, January 30, 2008

To Editor of Denver Post

The article “School nest eggs need explanation” reviewed some of the wealthiest universities’ annual income. Almost every university has increases its tuition. The money we have to pay for college is getting so ridiculous that the U.S. Senate has to put pressure on them to keep tracking where our money go.
As an international student, I can definitely feel the “pain” my parents are having. It costs a lot of money just going to school in a foreign country, with a 15% increasing tuition each year, they might have to consider if I still can go to DU the next year.
The spokeswoman of CU (Colorado University), Gigi Reynold said that 90% of the endowment from CU will be donated with specific causes of mind. And that is too general, not specific enough to comfort civilians. Harvard University offers financial aids to poorer families, but editor doesn’t think it is a good idea for every school, because some other schools don’t have as much endowment. Editor used ethos in this part of argument. Instead of collecting so much money from the students, then offer them scholarships and any other kind of financial aids, I think they can drop the tuitions a little, to achieve the same goal.
This article doesn’t have any pathos writing pieces in it, since it is a documentary kind of writing. At the end, editor said that “we’d prefer they remedy the situation I can see ethos has been used here. It shows the editor’s emotion, and his opinion about reducing the tuition. This article is very straight forward, easy to understand where editor wants to lead us to. Very little ethos has used. I think it is a good idea if more of the examples about how unaffordable school tuitions are to the average income families.

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