I have read the comments of other students in recent issues of the Technician regarding spending and the federal government. As an older, nontraditional student, I have a significantly different viewpoint on many different areas. The tenth amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

It is not the responsibility of the federal government to fund education at any level whether it is K-12 or at the university level. Likewise, it is not the role or responsibility of the federal government to provide services such as NPR, PBS, The National Endowment for the Arts, Planned Parenthood, and a lengthy list of other agencies and services.

Lawrence Kennard

senior, fisheries and wildlife science