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If students get sued into oblivion, they can't pay tuition. And if the college does something meaningful and beneficial for their students, they're a lot more likely to actually see donations later on.

I'm by no means suggesting that the college has any obligation to provide any assistance, but it's certainly to their benefit in the long term.

Parent makes good points.

Maybe it is time to inform your alma maters people. Send along Mr. Beckerman's letter and whatever else you may deem appropriate. If you are a regular contributor to your alma mater and they have cooperated with the *AA's then you should consider whether or not you should not send them the next donation while telling them why you are not going to give them money. Speaking of donations maybe some alumni associations should consider setting up legal funds specifically for this type of student protection. Alumni should look into whether or not the *AA or their members have made university contributions too.

Lawyers around the universities should look into this and consider the public good it could do if they volunteer to help the affected students, I am not sure if such Pro Bono work would bar them from collecting legal fees from the *AA or not. Of course there are probably some legal dodges for this such as "if we lose, I will forego my fees" which they might add if they study this well "but I doubt we will lose".

University students and alumni, congratulations, you are now probably of voting age or beyond, study how this can be used to your advantage. How many votes could universities account for to take down the "Senator Disney"s of the country?

This issue probably isn't so clear to the universities, perhaps the way to get things started is to have an open and evolving symposium series on the subjects. Of course this would burn a lot of time, but it could be a good tool to develope better raport with the students as well as generating a lot of tools for the defense of the students and the university. When things start to clarify, invite some congressmen.

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• Pay off your bills
• Help you and your family through an emergency
• Repair your car
• Go shopping
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...sigh. Okay, I keed I keed and I know I'm going to get modded down for posting some actual spam I found in my inbox. But I have actually heard of this problem before. I wish it would just go away along with the majority of our obsessivly consumerist culture. But thank god, though I have seen some folks accuse Slashdot of being in bed with some of the product manufacturers it features in its stories (an accusation I don't actually subscribe to), I have NEVER seen blatant spam (that wasn't a blatant troll) mixed in with the blogging on this site. Could it be that the lameness filters are admirably effective in blocking this sort of content? Or have, I wonder, the spammers not figured out how to interface with Slashdot as of yet? Repeat: yet?