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To: koan who wrote (173173)	10/6/2011 3:58:13 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543162

Partly- we need to stop the stupid expenditures of the colleges. It isn't teaching about Socrates that is costing all the money. The damn administrative salaries, teacher salaries and pensions, as well as the ridiculous sports outlays (at some of the big schools) are the things that are costing the money. If you look at European universities, they don't have the disparity of salaries that some American colleges have- their salaries are more in line with what other folks in society make, and they generally don't waste buttloads of money training kids in a college for professional sports. Let the professional sports teams run their own training "colleges"- and let's not pretend we can mix sports training with real college. The regents of the UC make me sick. They should never have the salaries and perks they have. Screw it. It's public education- it's not supposed to reward the regents and their minions like kings.