<div dir="ltr"><div>Nick,</div><div><br></div><div>Good essay by Bruni. <br></div><div><br></div><div>My wife, who went to Harvard (as you know, Nick), was made physically ill by the theme in The Social Network of the rich kids lording it over others because of their weekend trips to the Hamptons or Newport for coming out parties. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Frank<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:59 PM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_5325804728472089682WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi, Frank,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Yes. That’s an exciting bit of news. I have no “inside information” about what is going on, but inferring from my experience at Clark University, St. Johns taking on the almost universal practice of stating notional “sticker prices” which only the wealthiest students pay and which help to pay the tuitions of their less fortunate colleagues. I am ambivalent about it, myself, since the practice Incorporates the fact that for rich people to get any education worth its salt, there HAVE to be poor people around them. Nothing poisons the mind so thoroughly as living amongst unseemly wealth. Talk about “entitlement”. Yuck! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">On the other hand, for institutions of higher education, devoted after all to the pursuit of truth, to base their tuition structure on a lie, is also icky, so I applaud the experiment. St. Johns apparently feels that this policy will get them an even more balanced student body than the practice of overstating tuition costs to include scholarship costs. Making tuition costs more honest will go a long way to challenging the exaggeration of higher education inflation, which comes largely from accommodating rich students in the style to which they are accustomed so that enough of them will apply to pay for the poorer ones. (Apparently, the Umass dining hall is now serving sushi!)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/opinion/contrarian-college-stjohns.html" target="_blank">Frank Bruni wrote</a> about the change in the NYT. In less than 24 hours, 1200 comments accumulated, a few mindless, but many interested. They are still available at the link above, or I scraped the site and put them in a word file, above. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">See you in three weeks, <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Nick <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Nicholas S. Thompson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Clark University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/" target="_blank">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Friam [mailto:<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Wimberly<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 14, 2018 1:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Friam Today<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">There were only four of us at Friam today. Three of us got there early and the fourth walked. Also the coffee shop was full of students. This was apparently all because of a presentation by the College administration about St. John's new tuition policy in which the tuition is being reduced by tens of thousands of dollars per year. The parking lot was virtually full by the time I got there at about 8:45. I assume it was lack of parking that caused such low attendance. I hope to see you New Mexico Friam members next week.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Frank<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Frank Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz<br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br>505 670-9918<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>============================================================<br>
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