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Myrina

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11. "Pick a cheaper college"?

Reply to JPZenger (Reply #7)

Thu Sep 5, 2013, 05:36 PM

Sep 2013

Yeah that's wrong too.
Why should any student suffer because they or their parent is poor?

How about making higher ed more affordable by getting rid of the zillion dollar sports stadiums, by taking the profit out of ripping off students for books and fees, and clean up the ethical issues of schools investing in Sallie Mae et al so they can make money off a student twice - once from tuition and again later off the interest on the loans/stock investments?

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The student loan bubble is starting to burst [View all] n2doc Sep 2013 OP

Holy f'n wow. This is massive. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #1

Guess they have enslaved enough people to last a lifetime. Criminals. nt Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #2

I hate being enslaved... Bonx Sep 2013 #6

If that's as complex and nuanced as you are capable of seeing this matter RadiationTherapy Sep 2013 #9

+1 brazillion Myrina Sep 2013 #10

Evidently you *love* being enslaved, if that dismissive snark... villager Sep 2013 #14

Fail. n/t dogknob Sep 2013 #15

You have no clue what I meant, apparently. nt Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #17

Maybe they know something they aren't letting on to...? closeupready Sep 2013 #3

Those fields have been plowed under BeyondGeography Sep 2013 #4

Private student loans zipplewrath Sep 2013 #5

Private student loans should be stopped JPZenger Sep 2013 #7

"Pick a cheaper college"? Myrina Sep 2013 #11

That's getting harder to do. Limit for freshman for federal loans is $5500/year. MissB Sep 2013 #19

Interesting timing felix_numinous Sep 2013 #8

I think we will soon see a movement similar to the Refuseniks (colloquial def.) Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #12

You mean those "Professional Left" types (formerly liberal moderates) who always villager Sep 2013 #16

That would be them, some of them, anyway. Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #20

but TIME's priority is to focus on the need to use school resources to pay athletes Supersedeas Sep 2013 #13

College should be fucking free. JEB Sep 2013 #18

^ This ^ Arugula Latte Sep 2013 #21