Not quite the enthusiasm there was four years ago:
At the speech in Carmichael Arena, home to the women’s basketball team, students tried to generate chants of “O-bama” but couldn’t spark the energy of the full crowd. The roughly 40 minute speech ended with such loud applause Obama had to shout his final lines, but a brief chant of “four more years” didn’t gain widespread support.
Meanwhile the Winston-Salem Journal reports Obama called out Rep. Virginia Foxx for her comments on the G. Gordon Liddy Show that she had “very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt” because she worked her way through UNC in seven years.
The article says the president didn’t mention Foxx by name, yet –maybe I’m missing it— I don’t see where he directly quoted Foxx, either.
Ironically enough I agree with Democrats who would face Foxx in the general election that the days of working your way through school are pretty much over. I paid for half my college, earning a semester’s tuition (plus room and board) from summer jobs doing construction, lifeguarding, working in the grocery store, whatever. It’s a damn shame, and while people have lots of ideas about why college costs keep rising, nobody’s doing anything about it.
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2012 At 10:33 am, Piedmonster Said:
I worked my way though an expensive private college and graduated debt free – with significant financial aid and some contributions from my parents.
The military academies are free. Community college is dirt cheap.
No student is forced to take on $200k in debt – if they choose to do so, that’s their problem, better get a good paying job.
Four year universities, both public and private, are making a concerted effort to spend millions of dollars on non-essentials that attract customers and will continue to do so until the bubble bursts. If the UNC system cut back their tens of millions of waste per year they could lower tuition instead of raise it.
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2012 At 10:51 am, Sam Hieb Said:
Thanks for the input, Piedmonster.