[lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Mar 11 15:02:57 PST 2010


Gail Brock wrote:
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> Enriching human knowledge may be why the public should support research, but not why undergraduates should pay for the research, especially with loans. And public support of research should be justified by public ownership of research.

The issues are not connected, except as any two issues can be connectewd in one's head. Low tuition is an issue (working-class demand) independent of anything else that goes on at the university. This sort of arbitrary linking of separate issues is self-defeating.

Carrol



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