Students stressed by the recent tuition increase are about to be hit again.

According to a recent story in the Los Angeles Times, the governor’s latest budget proposal would cut $729 million from higher education. At the community college level, fees will increase by $8, from $18 to $26 per unit for undergraduate students.

Students who have a bachelor’s degree would pay $50 per unit instead of the current $18 fee if the proposal is accepted.

Henry Garcia, a double major in computer science and engineering, was appalled at the new tuition increase.

“My parents don’t pay for me. I pay for my own classes.”

Garcia, 23, wonders, “How can you go from 11 bucks to 18 to 26 in two semesters?”

The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that the new plan also cuts funding to the UC and CSU systems and calls for a 10 percent decrease in enrollment.

Qualified freshmen who are rejected by these schools would be able to attend a community college for free.

However, the proposal doesn’t address how community colleges would handle this increase.

“They better hope they don’t get beat up,” Garcia joked about the UC or CSU freshmen who would attend for free. “All I want to know is what makes them more special than us.”

Jennifer Hatfield, 21, an anthropology major, is angry about the impact cuts will have on low-income students.

“Half of us who go here can’t even afford to pay,” she said. “I can’t afford to pay for someone else’s kid … spoiled little rich kids need to pay.”

Shona Torix, a 33-year-old liberal studies major, was disheartened by the new proposal.

“It makes me feel like I’m paying more money to our government, not our school,” she said. “If the money actually stayed within the school, I wouldn’t have so much to say about it.”

Last year thousands of community college students traveled to Sacramento to participate in the March in March, to protest budget cuts. March in March II will take place on March 15.