Good point. Like any large corporation, state-sponsored universities claim the only solution for billons not being enough is more money.

Serious questions also have to be raised about how existing funding is being spent, especially when state universities claim to be in perpetual financial crisis (the usual budget whine of any state agency during the budget cycle).

How, for instance, can universities supported by public money complain about the need to pay tenured faculty more to keep them from jumping for a better offer--so much for the altruistic theory of pedagogical motive. A rhetorical question not requiring a question mark. How, when tenured professors earn much higher personal incomes (with health insurance) than the average $42,000 family income, than graduate student teachers, than nontenured faculty (in that order)?

Lest there be any doubt, I have some serious issues with the Baltimore Sun's version of reality--let alone Mr. Greer's.