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[quote=Anonymous]Ridiculous.  I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job.  I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room.  I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had.  I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit.  After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital.  When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area.  I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap.  You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150.  If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300.  If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new.  Or, the rich private college parents can buy one.  There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.[/quote]

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