Lower tuition = Better access for the Poor?

I'm baffled by the logic of countless student groups who proclaim their desire to reduce tuition fees so as "increase access to education" for the poor.

In lowering tuition rates across the board, they are effectively promoting the subsidization of education for the rich, and often for themselves. Altruism concealing selfishness.

If you truly want to increase access for the poor, the last thing you do is lower tuition rates. In fact, raise them.
Afterwards, you use those additional funds from those who CAN AFFORD to pay to provide bursaries and grants for those who can't.

And it worries me that so many of my fellow students are aspiring "leaders of tomorrow", yet so often devoid of basic logic.

How to Marxist / Communist professors mark assignments?

Do they actually give their students marks based on their individual assignments, or do they merely aggregate the class marks and give them an "average" in the spirit of "equality"?

6 Elements Every Conspiracy Theory Needs

Moon landing? Hogwash — a hoax to distract the public from the Vietnam War. Princess Diana’s car accident? That’s rich. The Royal Family clearly had her offed — as blithely as if it were removing a thorn from its highborn flank.

At least that’s what conspiracy buffs believe. And there seem to be more of them than ever. LondonTimes columnist David Aaronovitch says that our rampant infoculture provides a breeding ground for crackpot theories. Take the Web’s unique ability to lend unverified assertions an air of authority, add a dash of political instability, and you’ve got the ultimate medium for propagating alternate realities. “It’s more bearable that terrible events should be the result of a big conspiracy than the blind cruelty of the world,” says Aaronovitch, whose new book, Voodoo Histories (Riverhead, 2010), chronicles several of the 20th century’s most prominent conspiracy theories. “These stories are better than reality.”

But coming up with them isn’t just a matter of blaming the Freemasons; Aaronovitch identified six must-have ingredients, which are spelled out in the sample below. Use them to generate your own wild idea. But be careful — they’re watching you!

Link : Wired Magazine

Tuition fees and accessibility.

I am so sick of these upper middle class wanna-be do-gooders who think that lowering tuition fees is some sort of panacea for getting "marginalized" kids into school. The problem is much deeper than äffordability, and we should first address the social stigma of going to school. Yes, a stigma associated with anything that smells of intellectual pursuit. Lets start with the fact that by actually doing your homework, or answering your teacher in class, you will get bullied, teased, and ultimately, get your proverbial s$%# kicked in for being the odd man out. Having grownup on the "wrong side of the tracks" and in social housing, I know. Maybe it was my hatred for that place, that lifestyle and the desire to escape that urged me to go to school, or maybe it was my mom not having it any other way. Who knows.

I would love to cite some academic to back me up to this, but instead, I must refer to Chris Rock (a brilliant observer in his own right), who stated that in the ghetto, you get more respect for going to jail than you do going to university, and followed it with a hypothetical conversation (or from what I remember).

Person A. - "Yo, I just got my masters degree"

Person B. - "So what, you think you my master now, huh"?