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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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UD Loves to be Interviewed. She loves to compete with Mr. UD to see who gets more interview requests over the course of, say, a month. With his expert knowledge of and involvement in the Iraqi constitution, Mr. UD almost always wins this competition, but UD could tell he was impressed when a reporter from the Washington City Paper caught UD on the beach at Rehoboth for a long chat about whether George Washington University's most-expensive-tuition-in-the-country is worth it. The article's just come out - it's this issue's cover story -- and it's a very good one. It begins with a wonderful description of the Versailles-level entertainments the university provides for incoming freshmen (UD, who knows little about extra-curricular GW, had no idea about Colonial Inauguration), and then considers why GW costs so much, and whether the cost is justified. UD mentioned to the reporter that she knew a couple of students who'd left GW because they concluded it cost too much relative to the value of the education it offered. "Could you get me in touch with one of them?" the reporter asked. So UD told her about her student and friend Kevan Duve, who has transferred to Columbia University. Kevan's comments appear at the very end of the article. UD's quoted describing GW's culture of wealth. |