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They are homeless and starving, yet they can afford going to college?
1 posted on 04/05/2018 3:16:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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"We are pretty busy," Garey said. "At the end of the semester, we start recognizing that students no longer have food on their meal plans or maybe their financial aid has run out or they have given up a job so they can study, so they no longer have that income."

I'm a math person - I did the math. If I had 14 meals a week for the semester, I didn't eat 21 meals a week for the first ten weeks and then complain I was hungry for the last five weeks. I ate two meals a day for the entire semester. If I was cooking for myself, I divided the amount of money I had for food by the number of weeks, and that's what I spent each week. Beer money? Only when I had already earned a lot for the year and didn't expect money to be tight the next year. I acted like an adult, not like a perpetual child.

25 posted on 04/05/2018 3:40:57 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Utterly unbelievable nonsense.

And for the very few who may think they’re trapped in that predicament, they’re obviously not smart enough to be in what passes for ‘college’ these days.

Just a guess that the party money and smartphone w/unlimited data etc might have something to do with the purported situation.


26 posted on 04/05/2018 3:42:27 PM PDT by tomkat
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Education cost creep has consequences.


27 posted on 04/05/2018 3:45:02 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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They could easily fire half the administration, lowering tuition and food prices. Do they really need VPs or Deans of Diversity? I used to teach in small colleges that had few administrators. Extra duties were handled by faculty committees.


28 posted on 04/05/2018 3:45:16 PM PDT by DeFault User
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Be All that You can Be, in the Army.

They can make something out of you and will even feed your skinny a$$.

29 posted on 04/05/2018 3:46:16 PM PDT by Salvavida
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Tough $hit get a job


30 posted on 04/05/2018 3:50:21 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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The problem of college students' inability to afford food is common on campuses across the country.

They are lying or unable to perform the simplest of financial planning.

When I was at the big U, food was a tiny fraction of the total cost of my higher education. I was never starving hungry (although I did become something of an expert at eating astonishingly cheaply.)

31 posted on 04/05/2018 3:51:03 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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What happened to the Freshman 10 that everyone seemed to get?


32 posted on 04/05/2018 3:51:29 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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“Nearly a third are hungry and homeless...”

They should learn to hunt...with a cellphone app.


34 posted on 04/05/2018 3:57:20 PM PDT by moovova
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No one can really afford to go to college these days,unless they are awarded a scholarship.Everyone else just takes out loans.


36 posted on 04/05/2018 3:59:52 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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good practice for all those in any of the fat,ugly,angry,colored,transwhatevered, peg legged, one eyed thingamabob studies classes...
37 posted on 04/05/2018 4:00:54 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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Yeah but their overpaid professors eat grandly. Might be worth it if they taught subjects, instead of indoctrinating their students to become radicals.


38 posted on 04/05/2018 4:02:29 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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A bag of potatoes can make some very filling meals.


39 posted on 04/05/2018 4:03:55 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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They chose poorly.


41 posted on 04/05/2018 4:06:16 PM PDT by gogeo (excellent!)
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My son will graduate at the end of this spring term. The last two years he worked in the cafeteria on campus...


42 posted on 04/05/2018 4:06:27 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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What BS. I’d love to see what definition they are using for “homeless”


44 posted on 04/05/2018 4:09:35 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Maybe they should stop spending their student loans on Spring Break.
Furthermore, the processed food handed out at food pantries is incredibly unhealthy, so they’re probably contributing to the obesity epidemic.


47 posted on 04/05/2018 4:20:19 PM PDT by GnuThere
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Students prefer to spend their money on beer rather than on food.


49 posted on 04/05/2018 4:23:42 PM PDT by expat2
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They are homeless and starving, yet they can afford going to college?

The irony is thick there. Maybe they should have taken vocational tech classes and gotten jobs and saved for college. But, the high schools push everybody into college prep now.

52 posted on 04/05/2018 4:28:11 PM PDT by pfflier
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This is the second such story in a week about how the snowflakes are starving.


54 posted on 04/05/2018 4:38:09 PM PDT by Luke21
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