Reply #11: My analysis is that the money is going to almost everything but

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to professors and teaching aides.

I have seen expenditures that cannot be reasonably defended in the past 20 years with respect to colleges and universities.

* Presidents and other administrators who get raises while benefits are cut and wages remain stagnant for professors.

* Construction of "necessary" new facilities like gymnasiums (with or without work-out rooms), swimming pools, book stores, dining halls, campus bistros, etc. Stuff that will make the university more marketable to prospective students with its commercial appeal versus academics.

* Landscaping (believe it or not). Service Master came in and did more than mow lawns. They cut and pruned literally every bush in the ground, sometimes leaving little more than stumps in their wake.

* Insurance. Anything can happen on campus that insurance is needed to protect the school from bankruptcy in case of potential litigation (sexual harassment by professors, personal injury, harm by students or visitors to other students, food poisoning, etc.)