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From: mac@cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
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Subject: Re: harassing mail
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Date: 22 May 91 15:55:03 GMT
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mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
<jasonrey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jason Phillips) writes:
<<mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:

<<<..... But if we're providing you the computer access
<<<for free, and the network access for free, you have no right to....

<<Only one question: do students pay to attend your university?  If so, where
<<does the 'free' part originate from?

<  (smile)  You obviously have no idea how a university is financed.
<  If each student had to pay his share of running the university,
<  tuition would be $100,000 to $200,000 per year, or more.

<  Some very small private universities do manage to collect nearly
<  all their operating expenses from tuition. They are noted for high
<  tuition and not having very much to offer.  (Small, mediocre schools
<  for the rich.)

<  The rest of us have many funding sources:
<    -- Tuition (this is a small to negligibly small part of it);

At Kansas State University, students' tuition pays somewhere between
20--25% of the total cost of running the university.  (The Regents
periodically adjust fees to keep them near 25%.)  In-state undergraduate
fees are currently about $730/semester; non-resident $2,130/semester.

And if you'd like to hear how many Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, ...
scholarships KSU students have received in the last 10 years, I
could probably come up with those outstanding figures, too!
--Myron.
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