Comments on: Antebellum Columbia

By: tuitionrollback

tuitionrollback — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:45:26 +0000

All post-1988 student loan debts that were used for higher education tuition and fee payments should now be cancelled in order to provide more post-graduation debt relief for people under 40 years of age. In some European countries, higher education has long been free and students have not been treated as consumers by tax-exempt “non-profit” universities like Columbia. If the U.S. government was willing to forget about the debt it was owed by the government of Egypt, for instance, prior to Gulf War I, why should it not be now willing to cancel the post-1988 national student debt of its former U.S. students? Once universities like Columbia are taxed at the same corporate rate as for-profit universities, the amount of new tax revenue obtained by the U.S. government could possibly exceed the amount it loses by cancelling the post-1988 student loan debt. In addition, U.S. universities like Columbia that receive public research funds from the federal government should be subject to federal tuition-control regulations to protect current students from having to pay excessively high tuition costs so that university provosts can be paid salaries of $396,000 per year, for instance.

By: really?

really? — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:01:40 +0000

It makes you reeeally angry? really?

By: at least

at least — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:59:38 +0000

alum is better than the use of alumni as a singular noun. that makes me really angry.

By: slavery indeed...

slavery indeed... — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:38:14 +0000

…has nothing to do with ‘mice on treadmills (sic)’ but the dude in the article doesn’t make that connection either. he just uses two different analogies to express his feelings not one analogy to explain the other analogy

By: will

will — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:57:19 +0000

you please marry me? I’m in love with you for not writing “alum”.

By: Alum

Alum — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:51:49 +0000

Back when Mr. Baxter graduated, Columbia’s financial aid policies were very similar to HYP’s. The other schools only began using their financial muscle to boost their aid packages more recently.

Also, the article says Baxter graduated from SSW after earning his BA. I don’t know what SSW’s aid policies are like, but I doubt many of its peers have vastly better aid programs.

By: will you cease

will you cease — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:51:03 +0000

this outrage?

What a does a new yorker read in the morning?

The New York Times!

By: bringing this back

bringing this back — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:34:13 +0000

to what’s important.

what does a corn farmer read in the morning?

The Drawl Street Kernel!

By: McFister

McFister — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:33:46 +0000

It’s very simple: this person is mentally ill.

By: it's terrible

it's terrible — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:23:22 +0000

This is expected of a university that’s struggling to compete with others who are much better endowed. We’re simply low on funds, and our graduates have to suffer afterwards. Meanwhile, people who graduate from HYP walk away quite free with their diplomas.