Mr. Andrews, what rock have you been living under for four years? Have you forgotten that our university's president is better than Route 322, the road many students must drive in order to come to our university? So much better that he in fact jets the hour and a half to Harrisburg?

Have you forgotten that his regime is closing student housing in order to renovate into accommodating less students, or in some cases tearing down graduate housing altogether?

Were you not here when 'The Wasteland' parking lot between North and East was closed, and hundreds of student parking spaces were lost, and in its place were built more buildings that are more ugly airport terminal than usable classroom space? Or did you, like many other Penn State students, never bother to venture into one of these buildings, and see that there is more wide open lobby space than smaller, more cramped and poorly lit classrooms than you'll find in older buildings? Have you forgotten that student admission is rising while places to put freshmen are dropping, but tuition just can't seem to find an equilibrium?

No? Don't blame a bigger problem when the source is right here at home. The other half of the equation is students who just don't give a crap. Students who walk past tuition rallies, who laugh when they hear about Spanier locking his offices to angry students -- students whose parents are paying an arm and a leg to send them here -- just don't care.

Financial aid is a joke at this university, much like the one our ex-presidential candidate's recent gaff about Iraq. It's pathetic. The situation at this university is getting worse. I value my professors and my education, but is it worth the huge amount of debt I'm about to graduate with, because my family - who couldn't afford the medical bills accumulated while my brother was a THON kid -- doesn't qualify for anything. I'm here 100 percent on loans under my own name. What's the university done to help me prepare for that? Offered me credit cards at 9 a.m. on the mornings I get to sleep in. It's not Rendell that's the problem with Penn State. It's Penn State that's become the problem with Penn State. I love this university, and its current state just makes me sad.