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11/21/2009

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Cornellian

"And I've completely given up foie gras. If that's not a sacrifice, I don't know what is. "

I'd call that a break-even since you've probably added a year or two to your life (at least) by giving up the stuff.

A

As a Chicago alum, it saddens me that you feel a need to keep a preference for free people and free markets hidden in the classroom.

T. Shaw

My response to commenter 28: I guess there is something seriously wrong with me. I'll now say my nightly Rosary with its intentions for my son serving in Afghanistan and the conversion of sinful America.

Wes

Commenter 28 here. The problem with your analysis of UCLA (and other semi-publically funded schools) going to the "market rate" is that the market rate is a fiction created by the Stafford loan and the inability of debtors to discharge student loans in bankruptcy.

This has created a bubble of skyrocketing tuition that allows institutions to do things like pay people like you $250k+ to teach 10-15 hours per week.

Scholarship as an aspect of college level educators' jobs has eclipsed teaching to an unacceptable degree.

All that aside, I do agree that tax funds would be better spent on subsidizing the university than prisons, emission regulation, or any of the other various boondoggles CA likes to involve itself with.

As to the subject of my ATL post, believe whatever makes sense to you or makes you happy. That's your right. Just as it's my right to believe that your belief system lacks any rational basis. Vive la différence.

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