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Platapus · 06-28-14, 08:08 PM

I received my Master's degree from a government operated college. All funding is determined by congress.

Even before I graduated, I got hit up for money from the "alumni association"?

Huh? What exactly could the college spend any privately raised money on without breaking federal law??

It turned out that the college was asking me to give them money for a slush fund to pay for the "guest speakers", aka faculty beer buddies, to come to the college and give us motivational talks.

These talks were so popular that the college made attendance mandatory and we had to physically log in and out of the room... and now they expected me to pay for some retired buddy to get extra money under the table????

Uh no. So much no that if you ask me again, I will contact a federal attorney and let them know about this slush fund.

But even in my civilian education, it is more about profit for the school then it is for education. I *thought* that a private school would have higher standards than a public university. Yeah, I was wrong about that too.

My student loans for my doctorate are coming due and I will have to get a part time job teaching, just to pay off the loan.

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,380 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I received my Master's degree from a government operated college. All funding is determined by congress. Even before I graduated, I got hit up for money from the "alumni association"? Huh? What exactly could the college spend any privately raised money on without breaking federal law?? It turned out that the college was asking me to give them money for a slush fund to pay for the "guest speakers", aka faculty beer buddies, to come to the college and give us motivational talks. These talks were so popular that the college made attendance mandatory and we had to physically log in and out of the room... and now they expected me to pay for some retired buddy to get extra money under the table???? Uh no. So much no that if you ask me again, I will contact a federal attorney and let them know about this slush fund. But even in my civilian education, it is more about profit for the school then it is for education. I thought that a private school would have higher standards than a public university. Yeah, I was wrong about that too. My student loans for my doctorate are coming due and I will have to get a part time job teaching, just to pay off the loan. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.