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From: kathyp@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Kathy Pividal)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity  (was Rising cost of textbooks)
Message-ID: <2521@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 88 19:57:52 GMT
References: <1131@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1887@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <18121@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1060@l.cc.purdue.edu> <18144@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <842@quintus.UUCP>
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In article <842@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <18144@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:
>>>program are about 85% foreign.  The American students do not exist.  It is
>>>not necessary to use quotas to protect the American students.  I believe that
>
>>I agree.  The schools we are talking about are tax-supported institutions;
>>this is why the quotas are imposed.  As far as I know, the private
>>universities have no such quotas. 
>
>a certain number of years in the USA.  How much does it cost to have a
>foreign student at a state university?

 The quotas are not to protect the American students but the American Tax
payers. Many of the foreign students (graduate) are not only benefitting
from the American educational system but are being supported (tuition
and stipend) by American federal agencies (NSF, DoD, DoE, NIH, etc.).
Because of the new tax law, I (an American Graduate student) have to pay
the US goverment taxes on my stipend, however the foreign students on 
student visas pay no taxes to the US government even though their source 
and amount of funding is identical to mine. Explain why this is not financial 
discrimination against American students.