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Monday, September 03, 2007
The Fee Scam Tomorrow's New York Times has an article about the many universities and colleges that hit their students up for higher and higher fees every year. Fees are add-on expenses beyond tuition, and they cover, as the NYT notes, everything conceivable: energy, technology, health, buildings and grounds, student activities, libraries, course materials, transportation... but the biggie at most places is athletics. For instance, "The University of North Dakota has imposed a $37 per semester fee to pay for pulling its whole athletic program into Division I." We already know about Southern Illinois and its huge Saluki Way fees. Other sports-mad schools, like San Diego State and Indiana University (where the sports fee went up so amazingly one year that student protests forced the university to rescind it), are notorious for rip-off fees. From tomorrow's article:
Over the years UD's featured a number of articles from student newspapers chronicling discontent with fees... um, have to tack on more words here in order to have something to highlight for the links... |