The Socratic dialogue Governor Mark Sanford promised us yesterday got off to a rocky start. Strip away the "red meat"-statements unavoidable in these times of rage and so close to an election the obvious disagreement on "which numbers to use" reveals - once again - that complex matters lend themselves to oversimplifications.
College construction projects including athletic facilities are not financed to a large degree using tuition dollars. A moratorium would handicap us significantly and kill construction jobs in South Carolina.
Why student lottery scholarship money that goes to parents should be "counted twice" on the income side of the universities is unreasonable but of course it inverts the slope of the curves you show with respect to college funding.
Senator Daniel Patrick Monihan put it best:
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts."
Unfortunately but understandable rage and anger are fodder for political aspirations and do not lend themselves to "thinking outside the box" -
But important discussions are being started since many of us at universities have realized that the status quo is not sustainable.
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-They-Hate-Us-/124608/
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