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eppur_se_muova

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10. "Funny money" -- they charge thousands of dollars in tuition, then say you don't have to pay it.

Reply to Freddie Stubbs (Reply #7)

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 09:12 PM

Aug 2012

It is NOT cash in hand, and can never be.

When every student in most Depts is getting the same "free" tuition, you can set the "value" of that tuition to anything you want.

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