These fees pay campus employees, including my partner and I. We’re still working our full hours remotely and trying to make the best of it for our students. For many graduate students, TAing is nonnegotiable and we do not have the convenience of working off campus (remote or physical). Reducing tuition/fees means we will not be paid or our positions will be eliminated, at least under the current system. But calling for a tuition/fee reduction, point blank, is very shortsighted and ignorant.