What’s with this Harlan shit? Is there a gay Glenn Reynolds out there that he doesn’t want to get confused for?

did he comment on how many UT law professors could be let go?

Don’t go to colleges or schools that will require you to borrow a lot of money to attend. There’s a good chance you’ll find yourself deep in debt to no purpose. And maybe you should rethink college entirely.

Shorter Glenn Reynolds:

“Fat, drunk and stupid is a great way to go through life because it means you’ll believe whatever manure I shovel.”

You might think that a law professor who seems to spend no time on class prep might not want to make statements like that. Certainly no one attending the University of Tennessee Law School is getting value (and the folks at the University of Wisconsin Law School might want to take a closer look as well).

There are several reasons why college costs have gone up. A big one, for public colleges and universities, is that state support for higher education has dropped from about 70% of the cost per student when I was in college in the 70s to less than 35% today. The actual costs of education have gone up as well, as students now require access to computers, sophisticated scientific equipment, new classroom technologies, and the like that were not even available in the 70s. Another factor is the explosive growth in academic administration, which has grown far faster than either the numbers of faculty or students. Administrative salaries have also grown explosively (while academic salaries have at best generally only kept up with inflation over the past 30 years). A fondness of university presidents for new buildings, often with little or no new classrooms, has also added to the costs.

Nationalize it all, starting with the Ivy League and the University of Chicago, and make it all free. But outsource Glenn “Harlan” Reynolds to Banglafuckingdesh. And take back Meggs’ degrees and also the 41 Bush diplomae from Yale. The ex post facto/corruption of blood provisions of the (former) Constitution are for pussies and whiners, enywayz.

A college degree demonstrates, at least, moderate intelligence

…I guess he is the exception that proves the rule…

Ah, feh, he *so* lost me at “[...] Assume that I’m right [...]“ — that’s just asking too much of the reader when the writer in question is Glenn.

Take away the Glenn Reynolds name at the top & 80% of the column is sensible. Universities spend too much, cost too much, teach too little. The trend lines are all in the wrong direction. It’s headed for a breakdown.

So why doesn’t somebody better write the column that needs to be written? Is there simply nobody out there who can start knocking heads before the train hits the cow on the tracks? There are some meaty issues being ground under the rug, and all I have is a metaphorical mixer.

Yes, and let’s not leave out the huge cost of collegiate athletics programs, which at most schools are big money losers. I like playing sports and watching others play as well, but I always resented my tuition dollars being used to finance the NFL’s farm teams in particular.

He also spends time writing bad columns for (among others) Popular Mechanics. Bills are bills after all. . .

Never trust a man in a turtleneck