Facts

[kz_blogorambling]

Here's a fact for the day. Several public universities have come up with this clever little scheme to get more money from students while still getting to brag about low tuition increases. I call it "Screw the Freshmen." You see, a place like, say, Indiana, increases tuition a modest 5%. Woo-hoo! But at the same time, they declare that all new students will pay a $1000 surcharge. So a sophomore may only see a 5% increase, but if you compare what a Fall 2004 frosh pays compared to a Fall 2003 frosh, we're looking at a 22% increase. 5,000 freshman means an additional $5 million to their bottom line.

Fact for previous unfacted day: In 1844 a slave earned a college degree (from Lafayette). His LA owner had sent him north to get training as a medical aide. There had been a handful of black college graduates before this time, but none of them were slaves.

Comments

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

And what became of that degreed slave?

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

Well, as I understand it, his owner planned to manumit him along with a number of other slaves. He wanted him to have useful skills in Liberia. I think, however, that the former slaves he sent back ended up in Algiers.

His owner is famous in New Orleans. He was apparently an eccentric cheapskate but gave shitloads of money to charitable causes, especially those promoting desegregated public education, upon his death. And there was this slave thing.