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Just because you have a giant endowment doesn't necessarily mean you can write checks off of it. They're likely tied to stipulations regarding their use.

Yes, like paying for buildings or funding Departmental Chair, etc. All things that tuition would be paying for if the money wasn't endowed. If endowments are not used towards university education, what good are they?

It's becoming more expensive because costs have gone up, more people are attending (in general due to population increases, more people are "college age" than before but also enrollment goes up when the economy goes down).

1. College tuition inflation has been going up 2x to 4x the rate of inflation since the early 80s good or bad economy. http://www.finaid.org/savings/tuition-inflation.phtml. So don't blame "the economy".
2. Are you actually arguing that the AVERAGE tuition per student should go 2x to 4x over the rate of inflation because more people are entering college? Education, like all other information fields, benefits from economies of scale. What is actually happening is that universities are gouging students because of the rise of demand.

Second, the economic depression has been on for a while now and wiped out emergency funds and other savings they'd accrued. There was a lot of money lost in investments that are now worthless, largely thanks to the gambling by our financial industry, but not exclusively.

They were jacking up the cost of tuition well before their investments were wiped out, and would still jack them up even if they weren't. And there are 63! universities whose endowments are > 1 Billion dollars. http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=192&f=2495&t=7127853.

Finally, just because information is easier to come by doesn't mean it's all valuable. The more information there is, the more work involved in organizing the useful bits from the shit.

Our economy is a web of interconnections. It's not at all as simple as you make it sound.

Are you kidding me? Really? Yea, the universities are spending tens of billions sifting through information to present just the interesting points to students? Have you actually been to a class the past 15 years? You are lucky to actually be taught by a professor rather than a TA who barely speaks English and is making less than minimum wage. And while I'm sure "womyn's studies" may have changed a great deal there hasn't been much change in Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, etc. I would bet a lot of money that the vast majority of professors barely change their curriculum from year to year.

You are being duped by an industry even greedier than any corporation. They prey on people's dreams, take all the money they possibly can, and don't care if you spent 150K on a degree that is worthless. Universities should be forced to back student loans--if a student defaults it is the university who is responsible. Instead of holding them accountable, people like you are part of the problem by being their apologists.

Some alright parodies, but when it hits the level of the Ed Hightower parodies, then I'll be impressed. They are not all winners, but there are some gems in there.

Agreed.

ESPN is a shining example of why bundled packages don't work. ESPN is one of the most expensive channels for cable and sat companies to offer. This is, in part, due to the huge costs associated with the acquisition of broadcasting rights for various sporting events by ESPN.

It is compounded by ESPN's growth model, which is to spawn more specialized sporting channels that they then shuffle semi-major sporting events to. This was done with ESPN-2 and is now being done with ESPN-U. (see here) So if I want more of the specialized channels *I* want, I end up paying more for ESPN channels I could care less about.

The icing on the cake is this - about seven years ago, I paid over $600 for an ATSC/DVB-S receiver in order to pick up HD stations. The sat provider that I went with offered several HD channels for free. Several more channels were added to the HD package over the years, but the cost remained the same. This continued until ESPN-HD arrived. Suddenly, I was asked to pay a small fee to continue to watch all of these channels.

I subscribed to it for a while, but why? Most of the programming on ESPN-HD was simply upconvered NTSC analog programming. So I dumped it. Kept my sat service for a few more months then dumped it completely. Now all I get are local channels, TBS, WGN and Discovery that come free with my cable company's digital cable package.

Both my cable co and my former sat company bombard me with offers for HD PVRs and several months of free service. Why? All of it except for one or two channels is nothing but junk to me. The only way for me to pick and choose is to get a C-band sat, which my HOA would never approve.

So in the end, this cartoon from the CSMonitor sums it all up...

"for being so concerned w/ names you should have checked your spelling. The correct spellings are: Lavernius and Jevon"

I was very careful with my spelling. Here's the info from NFL.com.

http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/187742

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=183&p=8&c=1&nid=18844 29&refid=1

If you think I'm still in error, could you please show that these folks I just mentioned don't have the names as I described?

Thanks in advance.

Amaxing really. I thought Oklahoma had more morons than Kansas. I guess if you venture outside of the Kansas City Metro area or Lawrence (maybe manhattan, not a big KSU fan) you get the rural boobs like we have here.

Jesus, Guns, and Bigotry. All staples of an ignorant society.
Again I'm not surprised

Cochell's obviously got 'No N****r' in him as well. Moron.

Ohio Stadium Project

Hopefully this guy comes out with higher res pics, he did a fantastic job! I love stuff like that