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50 YEARS LATER, STUDENTS CAN'T GET FREE SPEECH OR TUITION
Before I got to the actual dollar amounts, I was assured in big letters that, \"A Berkeley education earns our graduates an additional $26,333 each year in income over those who did not go to college.\" Since Berkeley is still an excellent school, its students will surely learn to recognize the slippery wording and limited predictive value of that undocumented statistic on future earnings.
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50 years ago, there was free speech and free tuition on campus
I'm going back to the University of California, Berkeley, campus this week for the 50th reunion of the Free Speech Movement. You may have heard in some history class about Mario Savio and the first student sit-in of the '60s. That was us FSMers at Berkeley. It will be a little surreal. A university that had nearly 800 of us arrested in December 1964 is welcoming us back by hanging Free Speech banners on the building we occupied. We're coming home like a victorious football team. But it's not a real victory because the same forces that tried to shut us up in the 1960s have a more chilling control over U.S. college students today than they ever had over us. Today, it's not police control; its economic control. There's been inflation, of course. But nothing that begins to explain this kind of huge jump. The increase also can't be explained by the cost of new stadiums and lavish buildings, which we intellectual alumni love to deplore. Nor is it due to teachers' salaries. Low-paid adjuncts do much more of the teaching today than they did when I went to school. Top academic administrative salaries, like top corporate executive salaries, have increased beyond inflation, it's true, but not by enough to account for a tuition increase from nothing to $12,000.
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Free Speech, free tuition
[...]it's not a real victory because the same forces that tried to shut us up in the 1960s have a more chilling control over U.S. college students today than they ever had over us. Before I got to the actual dollar amounts, I was assured in big letters that \"A Berkeley education earns our graduates an additional $26,333 each year in income over those who did not go to college.\" Since Berkeley is still an excellent school, its students will surely learn to recognize the slippery wording and limited predictive value of that undocumented statistic on future earnings.
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Christie, by Shakespeare; There's a bit of 'Richard II' in the New Jersey governor's bridge scandal
For the king at Pomfret (the former King Richard), substitute Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich and the passage starts seeming positively contemporary.
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Stirring up the students
Obituary of civil rights activist Mario Savio, who died on Sixth November 1996 aged 53.
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Go ahead, ask for a raise; To stave off the next downturn and keep America strong, wages have to increase
The ultimate debt scheme of the era involved making mortgage loans to Americans who couldn't afford houses, then bundling those high-risk loans and selling them off to investors and financial institutions. [...]the share of national income that goes to investors usually declines during recessions while the share that goes to employees increases.
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Still in the dark; Many residents of New York haven't been able to put Sandy behind them
Since Superstorm Sandy soaked the East Coast, there's been a presidential election and a CIA sex scandal. [...]who determines which magazines get temporary office space?\" my Fidelista friend demanded -- \"or that magazines get priority over other displaced enterprises?\" I countered that the total amount of spontaneous ingenuity unleashed during the crisis was in no way diminished just because it was commandeered for profit-making purposes.
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Give the rich my $600
Therefore, I would like you, President Bush, to arrange to have our refunds sent separately and to instruct someone at the IRS to forward my half directly to an economy-building investor -- perhaps you or the vice president can suggest someone suitable from among your personal acquaintances.
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