Despite violent riots and political pressure to reverse the decision, California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed said there will not be a revote on the recent fee increase for the 23-campus system.

Last Friday, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an open letter regarding the 9 percent fee increase to Reed and Chairman Herb Carter. The letter called the manner in which the decision to raise fees was made as “alarming.” Newsom requested the vote be put back on the agenda for the Dec. 5 board meeting because of this.

Reed responded to Newsom’s letter saying there is “no good reason” to revisit the trustees’ decision.

Newsom’s concern rests within the fact that nine of the members of the CSU board were not in attendance during the vote and also in the hasty manner in which the fee increase was passed.

Newsom wrote the matter is “simply too important to not allow for a full and thorough public discussion” and that any other course of action “contributes to the perception that this process is anything less than open and transparent.”

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According to Newsom, if the Nov. 16 fee hikes are to stand, the CSU board would be “unintentionally inflaming the widespread confusion and acrimony that continues to build around the issue.”

The fee increase comes at a time of increasing unrest within the CSU system and around the country as a whole. With trigger cuts still looming, the future of the CSU budget is still unclear. Since 2006, tuition has more than doubled for CSU students, climbing a staggering 237 percent.

In response to the Nov. 16 increases, Reed recognized that “increased tuition impacts many of our students in varying degrees” and plans to look at “financial aid options for students who have not to this point been eligible for full financial aid.”