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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My college did not take any federal Funds[/b]. We had sports, but we have profitable ones, my year the basketball team went to Final Four.

When I say direct the school of course students got Financial Aid from FASFA etc and since a Catholic University we paid no property tax.

But we did just fine as we did not have research stuff and it was a commuter school at time. No Dorms so Campus at night just a few Security Guards, same as weekends. No big costs.

Plus a lot of priests did not even get paid. Our President of School had no salary.

mathwise the year we went to Final Four we had a lot of games on natonal TV. CBS paid us a million a game back them per game on national TV. Plus we were selling 20,000 seats a game at the Garden for like $20 bucks each for home games.

Tuition was only $4,000 a single televised basketball game could support 250 scholarships.

And our cafeteria and security guards we used to pay very low salaries but gave free tuition to their kids. We had several retired cops working with kids in school.

This is all pre hiking tuition prices and gvt. funding. They ran the school to be afordable.

I knew a few SAHMs who worked in Cafeteria or secretary to get kids school paid for.

That business model broke 30-45 years ago most schools as they became big business models with high tuition 
 [/quote]

Which college is this? [/quote]

The college is St. Johns (not the cool one) and every number the PP posted is off by orders of magnitude. They post this frequently, which tells you all you need to know about the relevance of these discussions.[/quote]

You seem hysterically protective of universities. Why? [/quote]

No, they don't seem hysterical.

DP[/quote]

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