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How Colleges Cut Back
Those endowments might have looked pretty good a short few semesters ago, but with the stock market way off its peak and donors strapped for cash, colleges dug deep for creative ways to lower their operating costs this year. The New York Times rounded up some of the more interesting money saving measures. For example, the University of Washington did away with landlines for various faculty members, following the lead of their wireless students, and Whittier College hosted "Trayless Tuesdays" at the cafeteria and then declared a tray-free zone altogether. Dickinson College saved on bus fare by hosting a "virtual swim meet," in which the competing teams swam at their own pools but compared times online.
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squiggy
Virtual education? What a novel idea! Home schooling is next, I'm sure. Keep all thos buses off the streets and save money, never mind the kids need socialization and diversity!
mskitee
Too bad government can't learn from this lesson.
gak001
As a swimmer, the concept of a virtual swim meet is somewhat clever but absolutely ridiculous for an actual conference dual meet. Nearly every single one of my best times was a direct result of competition pushing me to swim faster than I thought possible.
guiltybystander
one way they save is to not drop their unbelievably exorbitant costs for a middling education
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n--Y--Raaajeamapola101
We should not be giving our money for wars 106 billion dollars abroad. since sept we should have been giving bailouts to americans,home ,cars ,schools, pay the credit cars,credit lines, no we spend billions and billions for the leaders,warlords, politicians,all for the infrastructure and rebuilding of other countries,and that leaves us without jobs,schools should be free,good schools,excellent education for all here.We cotinue to throw billions abroad What about us.
SlaveRevolt
"and Whittier College hosted "Trayless Tuesdays"
Wasn't Whittier College the alma mater of Richard Nixon?
pcncarolina
Congress can join it by having the same health insurance as joe-citizen! They can save come CO2 by stop talking as much and money and CO2 by not taking so many plane flights to their mistresses (I'll lay off the women folk there). Come on Congress, where is your "sacrifice"?
squiggy
They and all the Supremes who voted co2 as a pollutant should hold their breaths anyhow! Clean up a lot of problems! Of all the crazy things to vote into law! A real peave of mine!
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