Two Students Rob a Bank for Tuition Money
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| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, two students have plead guilty to charges of aggravated robbery, saying that they did it for tuition money.
Are loans really so horrible these days that robbery is a better option?
Also, I think that this speaks tremendously to the state of college tuition and the burden of student debt. The students both attended school for under $10,000 a year, but increases in costs were still so overwhelming that they held up a bank.
Both of them face up to 20 years in prison.
...How?
You're talking about two people out of millions. If three kids happened to get together and rob a bank during an earlier, 'better' era for college tuition (Never mind that, comparatively, you're getting more for your money than ever before), would that somehow negate all your other arguments about college tuition costs?
More to the point, yeah, it's a cutesy anecdote. But there's nothing I hate more than the slow-news-day practice of attempting to take cutesy anecdotes and put them out there as "one more indication that [XYZ predetermined conclusion] is true."
Speaking of which - Hitchens' new column about Hanukkah is wonderful.
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