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The OU campus in Italy was funded through private donations too.

 

FFS, lots of poor kids go to college. They find a way to make it work, whether it’s with Pell grants, Stafford loans, work-study, whatever else. (To the extent there’s an issue, it’s usually coming from subpar schools where they were not prepared for what they were about to face.)

They find a way to afford the cheap beer and go out and have fun and act like dumbass college kids do.

Part of the way they do it is thanks to the predatory credit card industry, but we don’t need to discuss that here.

College costs a helluva lot more than it should, especially at state institutions, but Alma’s sudden concern about the poor kid coming to campus with two T-shirts and two pairs of jeans like Larry Bird did is amusing.

Source: This lower-middle-class kid made his way through college. Somehow.

 

Do you think the people making those donations aren't . . . rich?

 

"Wealthy" in the grand scheme of things? Sure. "Wealthy" as most folks in this time and place think of it? Not even close. There were something like 4,000 undergrads in the ... shudder ... "College of Business" from which I just retired. If even four of them were "wealthy" as we generally consider it, I'd be stunned.

I mean, you're not wrong as regards a non-trivial portion of the "higher education" market. But it's a relatively small portion. And it's silly to generalize as you (and others) do based on what you see in that portion.

 

https://kfor.com/news/local/as-state-funding-dwindles-ou-is-forced-to-use-more-tuition-revenue/

The Wall Street Journal references an Italian monastery OU first purchased in 2009.

The monastery was purchased with donor funds at the OU Foundation for $2.6M. Subsequent renovations totaled $11.7M, which came from the following three, non-student funded sources:

• Donor funds: $3.7M
• Coca-Cola Pouring Rights Agreement Funds: $3.4M
• Corix Utility Upfront Contractual Payment: $4.6M

Harroz was not President at the time of this purchase. He said if he had the opportunity to buy a monastery in today’s time, he would not. He does believe it’s an incredible asset to have though.

 

What if someone started a fake college to scam people....and that scam got memory holed like a million others?

 

Different story back in 2012 ...

"All told, the project will cost about $20 million to complete, Boren said. The university plans to fund the project through private donations, he said. University officials have already raised about $14 million toward that goal, he said."

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/new...stery-for-use-as-overseas-campus/61079141007/

 

Did the students expect a social life when they attended it?

 

Lots of school spirit. They all wear the same hat to the pep rallies.

 

I’m from Philadelphia. We don’t fit in anywhere else, and it’s something you don’t realize until you leave the city and surrounding area.

That’s why a ton of people never leave. And those who do go to Penn State.

But I left and have somehow survived and thrived for almost 20 years now. All I have to do is suppress every natural instinct I’ve ever had!

 

Of course. But those rich people are generally (not always) paying specifically for that thing. It's not general foundation money, or some "because it's Coca-Cola money, we couldn't have used it on anything else but this villa" rhetoric.

But, fine, equate them. If I grant you equation, does that make my point?