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...affordable access to education. If classes are cancelled now as a result of protests, it is with the understanding that the failure of these campaigns could mean the total loss of a college education for many more students. Given the number of UC students who pay their way through school by taking on jobs and loans, in addition to the considerable financial sacrifices endured by many families, the rise in tuition literally means the difference between getting or not getting a degree...
...lost whatever credibility she had left, along with any hopes of running for future office or holding a high-profile job. There would have been accusations of prostitution, name-calling, innuendos, claims of foul play, and conspiracy theories galore. Why? Because Scott Brown needed to pay for law school, and she posed nude for Cosmo in order...
...came close to a criticism was Keith Olbermann, who, in his emphatic over-slur of Brown, declared him to be an "irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model." Everyone else who mentioned the episode would quickly qualify the phrase, "he posed nude," with the statement, "to pay for law school...
...camera bears little on his ability to make policy. However, when the story first came to light, I couldn’t help recall Lisa Edelstein’s character Laurie from the hit TV show The West Wing, who was also trying to pay her way through law school by working as an escort. The point Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and main writer, was making with this plotline was that Laurie’s chosen method of financing her education had little to do with her intelligence or abilities as a lawyer. But when...
Many stories like Laurie’s are unfortunately not at all fictional. In 2003, The Guardian published a story about a mother who prostituted herself in order to pay for her daughter’s schooling, as well as several other women in similar situations. In 2006, the London Times reported that an estimated one in ten students attending a university knew someone who had at some point "stripped, lapdanced or worked at massage parlours and escort agencies to support themselves." In 2008, ABC reported a rise in the rates of prostitution and drug trafficking among school children...