I consider myself a somewhat patient person. Sadly the most mundane rubbish sent me into a violent uproar this week. What am I talking about you ask? The library.

A few weeks ago, Flyer News ran a front page story on the 8.1% increase in tuition price. I was pretty steamed at having to make a tuition payment rivaling an Ivy League school. Paying anything over zero dollars per semester will result in me paying off a loan for at least 15 years.

This thought lingered in the back of my head for a few days, and eventually dissipated. But when I learned that next year; as a part of this wallet molestation, students will have to start paying for printing in the library.

I soiled myself twice and had, at least, one aneurism upon hearing this gross information. I must have missed the part about excessive fees being a key in the Marianist Tradition. Isn't that the fundamental doctrine UD is founded on?

Well mother Mary would be proud to know the students of her university are being nickel and dimed out of every thing they own. And who wouldn't be? With such skilful and fastidious precision UD has devoured all the change in my ashtray, under my bed, in my bank, my wallet and under my mattress.

You might be thinking that I'm cheap, really cheap. Its not that I'm stingy, I just don't like being taxed on everything I do. Sadly we all have encountered ridiculous encroaching payments on asinine things. I've developed a series of ways to fight the system. Call me juvenile, but just hear me out.

When was the last time college tuition fell? I'm going to go ahead and say never. Therefore I can assume it will continue to grow. How can I, the student, fight this? It's simple. I take ninety minute showers. Actually they're only 10 minutes, but I just leave the water on at all times. Not only do I waste water, I waste heat too! You better believe my windows stay open year round and I never turn off the lights in my room.

If UD has no problem groping my wallet, I'll have no problem wasting their money, which is really my money. This is just my little way of 'stick'n it to the man.' I encourage others to do this.

But how can I, the student, specifically fight the printing tax in the library? I can remember a time when I used to just steal books from the library. I was quite confidant that no one has ever or would have ever read those books. In a college setting the library isn't a Mecca of theft, mostly because people might read those books.

The students of UD that want to 'stick it to the man' need to dress up like Native Americans and perform a Cherokee raid on the library's supply rooms. I'm alluding to a pseudo, half-drunk reenactment of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act of 1773 went down in history as one of the all time bonehead taxes, and so can this.

I know what I'm talking about. I read the back of a Sam Adams bottle. There's some inspiring stuff on there. Ol' Sam really stuck it to the man when he protested the Stamp Act of 1765 and this is no different. Would the framers of the constitution surrender their pocket change to a university with a $304,670,000 endowment? I should think not.