“Inside the Barnes Center at the Arch, the university’s new 50M could’ve brought about if it wasn’t spent on white-elephant architecture. Syracuse’s undergrad cost of attendance is $75K, so assuming students get 50% FA that’d give 333 of them a four-year free ride. Like, starting off post-grad life debt-free. Yeah, I know (almost certainly in much more detail than you) how many intertwingled pros and cons there are. But the irony of students camping out in a facility that trumpets their wellness while miring them in debt… And that’s before we even get to what they’re protesting about.
(NYT)