Posted on 09/10/2007 5:51:48 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Somewhere along the way, college life has gotten a whole lot more posh.
On a number of campuses, students are able to hire personal maids to clean and do their laundry. They pay moving crews to pack and transport their stuff — plasma TVs and other high-end electronics included. And they’re living large in housing that looks like anything but a dorm.
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Upscale housing and other perks also fit with some parents’ expectations, especially those whose children attend the priciest private schools.
“It makes the $40,000 tuition worth it,” says Brian Altomare, the 25-year-old president and founder of Madpackers, a Manhattan-based moving company for students.
This fall, his company added one-off limousine rides so student customers can arrive at school “like a rock star.” The company also plans to offer grocery delivery and cleaning and laundry services — something other companies, such as Valet Today and DormAid, already do.
Many students say housing amenities, in particular, play a big role when deciding which school to attend.
That worries some education watchdogs, who believe the focus on living the good life is driving up the already burdensome cost of college — and causing some students to ask for more grants and rack up more debt than they normally would.
“Students and school employees are living in increasing luxury while taxpayers are getting soaked,” says Neal McCluskey, a policy analyst for the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
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My daughter goes to a big school and I never heard of anything like that. It doesn’t surprise me, though.
I fear for this country when these kids are parents and unable to take care of themselves. These kids will be helpless when reality smacks them upside the head someday.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
But somehow I doubt it.
I’ve heard of some real slum-like conditions for students in dorms.
There is no downward pressure on education costs because taxpayer-funded aid always keeps pace with costs. Eventually, it gets to the point where not even wasteful and extravagant academia can soak up that much money, and it starts getting spend on maids and limos.
Within a couple of years, in-room “physical therapy” will wind up getting charged back to the taxpayer. Just wait and see.
This is how they build leaders?
My cousin graduated from Princeton in the mid 1970’s. About ten years ago, I visited the campus with him. He explained to me about the distances he had to walk between classes, having to get membership in a dining club to be able to eat, etc. It seemed pretty rough for what I thought was a high cost school for the privileged.
I graduated from a small town college, and I lived with my parents during my years as a student. I had it much easier. Then it occured to me that the Ivy League used to want to train leaders, and build leadership skills and attitudes, while my school was training technicians (I’m an accountant). He was learning that there was a responsibility attached to the privilege of attending the Ivy League, and being an Ivy League alumnus. There were a variety of skills that my cousin either learned, or he would not have it in Princeton. Since then he has used those skills to build a very impressive career for himself.
But hey, the kids are getting the best left wing indoctrination money can buy. They live in luxury paid for by somebody else and get to pay lip service to saving the great unwashed while their maid picks up after them.
My favorite was two liberal phoneys at law school who used to have serious discussions that they were going to make so much money, they would just have to put an extension on their homes and invite a homeless person to live there.
I used to clean dorm rooms at the end of the semester, after the kids moved out, back when I was at school. The job paid double any other student job, because they could not keep anybody doing it for more than a day. I would work like a dog for three weeks in the summer and over Christmas break, and pay my tuition for the year.
But, I gotta tell you, some of the things we found were beyond human belief. No kidding.
Nancy Pelosi told us that she’d make college more affordable. Apparently, she succeeded.
My dorm room at Iowa was so cold we could freeze a can of beer just by leaning it against a window.
These wonderful kids are too busy with their sociology classes, feminist studies programs, black studies programs, getting masters degrees in boinkology, to clean up after themselves
It makes good business sense for a college to offer this kind of facility to those who can afford it, and are willing to pay. I don’t know why they did not think of it sooner.
A conclusion derived from thorough experimentation, I'm sure...
There used to be, but that is disappearing. Schools have to stay competitive and an increasingly key way is through the quality of the dorms. There’s usually a range of options from no-frills to comfort. Nice dorms are a profit center for schools.
Write down your adventures in condom-removal, maybe it could be worked into the next “American Pie” installment.
Apparently these kids are preparing to live their lives as part of a Gilded Aristocracy. They are in for a rude awakening after the islamofascist takeover.
Minor: Ipod Management
It was a terrible loss, for sure.
Condom removal was the least of it. That barely rated.
Course, I was wearing gloves that went up past the elbows and rubber gardeners boots at all times. For the bad ones, I had a rubber apron and a face shield.
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