"When these students graduate from college, and even worse, if they don't, they will have taken on burdens that are almost impossible to negotiate much less erase, no matter the shape of the economy the day they leave campus. If they aren’t protesting about this, it's not because they’ve been bought off by rock climbing walls in the gym and fresh pesto in the dining halls, or because they all want to be investment bankers. The terror of decades of loan payments is a far more potent silencer than any police baton."
Peter Lunenfeld in Salon discusses Ronald Reagan's impact on affordable higher education.
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