Philly paper says HPU is the poster child for excess:

The school’s amenities provide an extreme example of what’s happened at too many American universities in recent years. They have been adding frills left and right to entice doting parents choosing which college to spend their own or borrowed cash on.

I have no idea how frilly Ohio Northern is, but a diploma that comes with $120K in debt had better be worth a lot.

Spartan dorms and fancy libraries seems like the right mix to me.

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[Thomas]

Drew Magary has some advice for next year's college freshman over at Deadspin. He touches on Ohio Northern in point #11. He's not a big fan.

[Billy Jones]

Once upon a time there was slavery and indentured servants.

And debtors prisons.

Then, when those were made illegal, consumer credit replaced them.

Are college loans the new indentured servitude?

Signed-- Not George

[eric]

"Spartan dorms and fancy libraries seems like the right mix to me."

^This. My dorm room at Johns Hopkins resembled a prison cell, and the dorm food was a few notches below prison fare. But the library had everything you could imagine and then some. And the tuition was affordable for most middle-income families.

Today, they have fancy dorms and fancy food. The library remains first-rate. But the tuition is out of sight. Still an outstanding place to get an education, but increasingly out of reach for many.

Also, YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!