“I will not make matters worse.”

That is what Gov. Schwarzenegger said during his State of the Union Address back in January and yet, he is making matters worse for college students.

Schwarzenegger plans to terminate the ability of some students to go to college.

“While including no new taxes, the governor’s budget relies on tuition hikes of state college and universities as well as community colleges,” according to a recent Los Angeles Times article.

Like former Gov. Gray Davis, he also plans to raise college fees.

The Times article states that he plans to raise fees by 10 percent for undergraduates at CSUs and Ucs. Community college fees would go up from $18 per unit to $26 per unit. Students who already have bachelor’s degrees will pay $50 per unit to attend a community college.

If students attend graduate school, their fees will be raised by 40 percent.

“We must end the boom-and-bust cycle of widely fluctuating fees with a predictable, capped fee policy for college students and their parents. And we must limit fee increases to no more than 10 percent a year,” said Gov. Schwarzenegger during his State of the State Address.

But he is raising fees for students attending community colleges and graduate students by much more than 10 percent. Schwarzenegger is raising community college fees by about 45 percent.

He went on to say, “Like our kindergarten through 12th grade schools, our colleges and universities must also share the burden of the fiscal crises but we must work to expand the dream of college.

But he is working on making it harder for students to reach that dream.

Raising taxes, although painful, was a better idea than higher fees at colleges and universities.

Obtaining a college education is hard enough with book prices going through the roof.

Schwarzenegger should quit his act of deception and start getting back into reality. The reality is college students do not need any more fee increases. This indeed, only makes matter worse