Monday on the street

On Sept. 14, the Associated Student of the University of New Mexico organized a summit in which state and student officials convened at the Student Union Building to discuss possible solutions to the Lottery Scholarship solvency issue. If you could attend a similar summit, what ideas would you suggest?

*Felicia Strange *
Biology, senior

“I feel like a higher ACT score or a higher GPA … Make it harder to get and harder to keep. Raise the standards instead of just giving it to kids who are just going to use it and throw it away.”

Jet Saengngoen
Educational linguistics, Ph.D.

“There should be more PR about what we do at the University, of the research we’re working on. Maybe enterprises, companies would be more interested in investing in the University and the scholarship.”

*Mariana Ojeda *
Exercise science, junior

“If we get all the people who are willing to participate to go and buy lottery tickets, whether they’re scratchers or Powerball, and we can have a lottery night. It would encourage people to go and be social and to pitch in to the lottery so we can have funds for the scholarship.”
Rena Tucker

Chemical engineering, freshman
“The ACT would definitely help if you raised it by a couple points. Maybe if you just take their college GPA and see how they’re doing after their first year in college.”

Phuong Nguyen
Biology, senior

“Raise the GPA limit and increase the GPA requirement for admitting students, like for high schoolers to go into college. I think raising the GPA to 3.0 isn’t asking a lot, so I think that’s a really good possibility. That way, you have more students who actually want to go to college and do well to get the Lottery, instead of anybody. The reason why the Lottery doesn’t have money right now is because pretty much anybody can get it due to the really low standards.”