As most students are well aware, if you wanted family to be able to take part in the Family Day activities, they needed to pay $20 a person. I personally think this is unbelievable, and after looking on Facebook, I see that I am not alone.

I understand that the University needs to pay for all the activities they have happening on campus and for the food, but my family wanted to attend just one of the many activities that day and I was told they still needed to pay the $20. That would have been $120 for them to do one thing! UNH really needs to come up with a better system.

My family doesn’t go here; they don’t attend classes, they don’t go to events, and they pay for ME to go here, isn’t that enough? They shouldn’t have to pay the school so much more money just to spend a single day on the campus. To have to pay to participate in school-sponsored activities, on a day where the school invites them to campus, in addition to travel costs to come see me, absolutely breaks the bank!

Instead, my family and I have current plans to sit in a hotel room and order in Chinese. Exciting right? I wish my family could experience all the amazing opportunities that UNH has to offer, and the things happening on campus that day do sound interesting, but for the students already paying so much money in tuition, the school should take into account how much money the families have left to spend on things like this.

I think it would make more sense to have the families pay for each individual activity or choose to pay the $20 flat rate for access to everything. I know my family is still coming up to see me, but other students have told their families not to even bother coming, and that just isn’t fair or right.

This is something that really needs to change in respect for the fact that the students and families already pay enough to attend school. It shouldn’t be $20 no matter the amount of activities you attend—it just isn’t fair.