Posted on 02/13/2002 12:04:43 PM PST by areafiftyone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Pointing to students' debt loads, presidents of predominantly black colleges asked Congress for more money for financial aid.
Addressing a joint hearing of two House education committees Wednesday, several college officials said their students need more government help as costs rise higher than they can afford.
Shirley Lewis, president of Paine College in Augusta, Ga., said nearly every Paine student either is working or has taken out loans. Many students end up graduating about $20,000 in debt, she said.
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The bill for my alma mater (private, Christian college) is about $20K per year now.
That's funny ... my step-son is going to college, pursuing a business degree and working 30+ hours per week. He's making the Dean's list ... and he can't afford a USED laptop. Now, the minorities are demanding that they get laptops at taxpayer expense? Gosh, maybe I'm blind, but where in the counstitution does it garrantee taxpayer paid personal computers, and free education for minorities? If you want to be treated as an equal, work as an equal.
Another liberal lie. Maybe poor black people are getting poorer, but there is certainly a large middle-class black population that the media, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton prefer to keep hidden.
As long as they mope for special treatment, special treatment - the assumption they're stupid and lazy - is just what they'll get.
... Pointing to students' debt loads, presidents of predominantly black colleges asked Congress for more money for financial aid ...I like subsidized student loans better than I like the notion of reparations.
Take the present value of the net transfer of wealth, including free public education, housing, medical care, and job protection, into America's black populace over the past 4 years, and I assure you it is some large multiple of any reparations demand.
And no, if you subsidize them more now, it won't be backed out of the reparations demand later.
Just because you get approved for $10,000 a semester when you may only need $6,000 doesn't mean you take out the max and then whine about it later when you've dug yourself a hole.
I asked the same type of question months ago on a long-forgotten thread. mafree gave me some gobbledygook answer that left me speechless. Maybe she'll be around to 'splain it to ya. Good luck.
Some races are more equal than others?
I asked the same type of question months ago on a long-forgotten thread. mafree gave me some gobbledygook answer that left me speechless. Maybe she'll be around to 'splain it to ya. Good luck.
What answer did I give you? Anyway, a black college is one that was started to specifically cater to a black population. At the time, most blacks were not admitted to white colleges and/or could not afford them, as financial aid was not there for much of anyone at the time.
These colleges mostly continue to serve a predominantly black population, though none are or ever have been closed to other races. Some black students, faculty and staff feel more comfortable at black colleges, which may tend to be more reflective of black culture.
That, coupled with the fact that they are often more affordable, ensure that there will always be a population who wants to attend black colleges.
Easy enough for 'ya leadpenny?
Earth calling Rep. Timmy-Boy. You're not exactly stranding the students with papyrus and an abacus. Of course "adequate resources" in this case is equated with the luxury of being able to pay professors $200,000 a year and provide brand new laptops to their students.
But anyway, why would we want to lend more tax money to U.S. colleges? They are nothing but Marxist indoctrination hot-houses for the pods, er, I mean students.
By this do mean teaching and stressing Afro-centric perspectives, including revisionist history, philosophy and advocacy of separatism?
My wife and I both worked our way(s) through college when the wage for students was fifty cents/hour. At one time I held four jobs simultaneously, one of them for meals only (no money). We graduated debt-free.
My son-in-law worked every other semester to make money for his education. He graduated debt-free.
PLEASE don't try to make me feel bad about how tough it is to pay your way through college. Those of us who have been there know all about it. The point is: if you want an education, you can get it without legally picking the pocket of the American taxpayer.
Thanks mafree. Tho my question was somewhat tongue-in-check, I appreciate the info. I think those 'balck colleges' have done a very good job under very difficult circumstances. My point is that in todays world, in theory, blacks now only have the same difficulties as everyone else as far as getting into and through college goes.
My other concern is that if I substitute the word 'white' for 'black' in your statement above, its called racist. That is not equality. I'm curious what you think of this, without knowing your race, nor you knowing mine.
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