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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (292558)	6/28/2006 4:24:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

JF, College unaffordability, as I've said before, is the great injustice facing America's young people today. In fact, I would argue that high tuition costs and the insurmountable debt that follows is perhaps the single largest factor contributing to the dearth of a youth political culture in this country. Most everyone attending Cornell, my alma mater, is on some sort of financial aid. Some of it is student loans, but some of it is also straight grants coming from Cornell itself. Where does Cornell get the money? From its astronomical tuition, of course, which keeps rising well past the rate of inflation. Kind of disingenuous for academia to continue raising tuition, then blaming government for not providing more student aid. Meanwhile, I keep wondering where all of that money goes. There was a whole quad on campus that was under construction for four out of the five years I attended, and in the meantime, the local collegetown got new high-rise apartment buildings constructed in just under a year. Tenchusatsu