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insofar as US colleges have a unique monopoly on extracting money from football played by its students, they should do it - in principle it's not that different from using the side-activity of teaching and housing non-academic-track students to justify funds directed to research. Take the money and run, preferably all the way into the lab equipment brochure.
I do wonder whether a lot of football spending isn't just zero-sum competition between colleges instead, though. For audiences and for college athletes.
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One big thing is all the lolita fashion stuff, like that had a few serious fashion shows at the con and were selling racks of $400 dresses.
and i just want to point out- from the perspective of a poor person who's looking to transfer in a couple years and who is very interested in that formula- that i think the 'don't be a sucker and pay for a brand name' proposition is very reductive and loses data in translation
while this may not be the case for plenty of other prospective students (and parents), for me the allure of prestigious schools isn't in self-satisfaction or preoccupation with my greatness. it's with the undeniable ancillary benefits of a prestigious (either in social or professional circuits) degree. maybe shippensburg could offer me a comparable education to penn state, but penn state has so much more money in its alumni network, its career services, its research opportunities etc that it's an almost unfathomably lopsided evaluation
so i am sort of interested in penn state (and that's a mild example- really i'm interested in usc, rice, u of chicago, unc, etc) for its name, but more than that i'm attracted by those factors which are inextricably linked with that name. the chicken-egg proposition, where i consider whether the quality made the name or the name made the quality, is moot at this point. i'm choosing based on the estimated value- a determination informed by more than just how many books i read and how smart my professors are
I really need to destroy a whole bunch of them.
Yes, because they're offsetting their ballooning costs onto student tuition.
Shifting the revenue source from one type of funding to another doesn't directly address the reasons for rising operating costs.
Eh, maybe.
Public funding definitely leads to perverse incentives because it reduces the cost sensitivity among students. Now, whether those perverse incentives are strong enough effects to be worth talking about is a matter of debate.
But if they are, then simply throwing more public money at them without instituting rational cost controls just makes things worse.
What they should've done is cut their expenses by 30%, not increased tuition. I'm no economist, but I'd bet the majority of that increase will be covered in grants and loans. To me that says they saw a huge drop in revenue and instead of slashing overhead they knew they had a captive market that will buy whatever they sell so they just cranked up the price and offloaded their pain to customers who can't demand a refund if they get nothing of tangible value for their purchase.
Naw I was just clarifying my stance
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Because ladies fucking love anime.
Also there are so many hot chicks who cosplay just because, as anyone would, they just want an excuse to have people stop them so that they can pose for pictures.
usually there is some stipulation about habitable or usable space. so a skyscraper might be the tallest structure but there is a demarcation for radio towers and stuff like that- real estate which can be occupied is often the most interesting rubric
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How long have you had him/her?
Cats are territorial and a change in environment takes adjusting to.
Anecdotally my current cat hid for 2 days, I put food and water near her hiding place which she ate and she snuck out during the night/day to use the litter box. On day 3 she was fine.
From what I read beforehand this is average, your main concern is that it is eating/drinking/using the litter box within 48 hours i think.
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very business-like, though, you gotta admit
I mean, if you had a captive market as a business, why wouldn't you do exactly this
Anyway, did I mention i'm making a card game? Wondering if anyone wants to try the super extremely pre-alpha version 0.1. it's probably a complete mess, but I'm gonna polish that until it shines.
(is it okay to post about that kinda stuff?)
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I don't know how it works in other colleges, but at CU, any money made by the football program stays in the football program. Oh, and they get money from the university's general pool as well. So, if the CU football program makes a billion dollars, then the #1 rated particle physics program doesn't see a penny of that.
what is the format?
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You mean the size?
Should around... 2.5 by 3.5 inches, i think. Same as Magic: cards.
you'd need dice, though, a whole mess of dice. cubic ones.
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Education is a business. They are selling credentials!
But I would support different costs for different majors. I just don't believe that we can get the cost of a degree down without forcing the university system to choose education and demand output from teachers. Running it like a (well run) business should go some distance toward accomplishing this. Holding universities accountable for the obfuscation of the value of a degree also ought to help. Putting price pressure on universities by not offering public funding for what amounts to a financial oubliette would also help.
I'm not against kids studying whatever they like, but I'm pretty against selling an art history degree as something with the same value as one in chemical engineering (just to pick something out of a hat).
that's pretty dumb!
people often make emotional decisions when deciding how to fund football, so it'll just go on and on until a budget crisis forces a reassessment of priorities, I imagine
Okay, so I can call it the tallest building in the world. I just love how all these countries are in this pissing contest to have the tallest building and they keep beating each other by a couple of feet by adding a slightly longer spire to the top.
Dice, in a card game?
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
Just a day. I'll wait and see what happens over the next 48 hours. Thanks for the info, I just want to make sure she doesn't dehydrate or anything.
oh i thought you meant this was software.
Send it my way and I shall take a look.
cleaning your fucking apartment = never step on dice in your bare feet again!
@Richy will be so proud of your name choice.
it's just that it literally makes me feel slightly queasy to look at groups of people doing it
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amputating your feet = never step on dice in your bare feet again!
Because i was inspired for a mechanic when i played Risk with my dad and he had a whole mess of dice and counters and i thought "Fuck... I gotta make a card game that needs a lot of fiddly parts".
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Wait, why wouldn't as many girls cosplay at videogame conventions? Booth Babes have already set a precedent that ladies cosplaying is cool.