Ames can provide monetary support for its elementary schools through a one percent increase in the sales tax and/or increases in property taxes. People supporting the increase in the sales tax appear to be very sensitive to the burdens that may be imposed on ISU students, in particular, possible increases in rents caused by an increase in property tax.

Using some data given by the Ames Tribune at the time of the first vote on the local-option sales tax, I estimate that the increase in property tax associated with a typical student sharing a nice apartment with two others would be of the order of a couple of dollars a month.

Of course, students living on campus would not be affected.

On the other hand, the increase in sales tax gets everyone.

Textbooks would cost more.

Food and drink at restaurants would cost more.

If I were a student I would vote no on Oct. 8 to an increase in the sales tax.

Why should university students pay for the local schools?

T. A. Weber

Physics