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    I was watching a C-SPAN coverage of Harvard's president, Neil Rudenstein,
giving a speech to the National Press Club.   It seems that he claimed that
tuition rises are not entirely unfounded.   If I recall, he said that back
in the fifties and sixties, fees and such increased at something like 5%
a year, even though many people thought that fees never changed much
during that period.   The reason, he claims, is that salaries rose at
a comparable rate during that same time.   However, while tuition is
rising faster than inflation in the eighties and nineties, salaries have
not kept up, and so it is more difficult for families to keep up, and
that certain expenditures from universities (computers, etc.) have increased
in prices faster than inflation.

    I'm sure he has a more thorough version of this speech written down somewhere.
Given that I have little data on the subject, I can't really make comments on
it.

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Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu