For a change, the CU Board of Regents does the right thing in protecting students' wallets.

More on that in a moment on the Face The State Radio Minute.

Should a handful of students at Colorado's largest college campus have the power to tax their peers to the tune of hundreds of dollars a year? That's the current situation in Boulder, where the largest student union in the world mimics the kind of tax-and-spend politics you'd more likely expect to find in Washington or Denver. CU Regent Tom Lucero recently sponsored a successful measure to limit students' tax - er, fee - authority, requiring a campus vote on future spending sprees. It seems only reasonable. Not surprising, then, that a former classmate of mine and now CU Regent Joe Neguse defends the status quo. Student election turnout is usually abysmal, south of 10 percent. That's hardly a mandate to tax the rest who aren't watching.

I'm Brad Jones.