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eppur_se_muova

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10. Until 1967, California state universitites did not charge tuition to in-state students.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 06:51 PM

Nov 2015

So yes, it is doable.

But in 1967 the incoming governor ruled it wasn't the gubmint's job "to subsidize intellectual curiousity", so that ended.

No prizes for guessing who that governor was !

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