Tuition takes its toll - Julie De La Torre, Sacramento News & Review

With the recession creeping into dorm rooms like a bad case of foot fungus, local college students are feeling the repercussions of the state budget crisis, most noticeably in their wallets. In the face of cratering state revenue, California’s university systems are cutting their budgets substantially, reducing classes and services offered to students even as the University of California and California State University contemplate hiking enrollment fees by 10 percent.