I had the opportunity to ask
a few students here at Cal State Los Angeles about the issues in the following
elections that are important to them. I got different answers from each
student, because each student is affected differently. These are their
comments.
A college student, who is
her second year at Cal State Los Angeles, believes that now on days is harder
to get a degree in college. Her major is pre-nurse. She is Japanese.
Then, I ask Cal State student
Albert Hernandez, a transfer student and Business major, about what issue for
the following elections is important to him, and he said that immigration
concerns him the most. I asked him, “why?” and he said, “…Because people are
being separate from their families and they can’t be together”. I also ask him
if he or anyone he knew was affected in some way, but he reply, “…not
indirectly.”
When I ask freshman Melissa
Hua, who is an Exercise Science mayor, what is the election issues affecting her,
she said, “Jobs are important… but because the economy is getting lower… if you
succeed in your studies you will succeed.” Melissa believes that with an
education, you will succeed and get a job in your career. “Studying is hard”
she said, because she believes that education is the key to success. Melissa is
currently a full time student and she has is unemployed.
“Getting your degree is more
important…” stated Natallie DJansenzian,”… it is hard to buy books and pay for gas.” Currently
she is not getting a lot of money from FAFSA. She is currently a freshman and a
Biology major here at Cal State Los Angeles.
“The most difficult issue is
getting a job, even if we get a degree, is worthless, if we don’t have any jobs
that can provide for us and to help support ourselves.” said Moses Georgian.
Georgian is Biology major and a freshman student at CSULA. Currently he is
working at sizzler on Saturdays only, and he only works five hours. “My boss cut
me hours and he is firing workers, I am not sure if I am going to survive one
more year here.”
Out of five students and
three issues, these results I got. Three students are concern with Education; one
is concern with jobs and one with Immigration.
