From the Academy

Universities or Matrimonial Bureaus?

This spring, much to the chagrin of the empire-builders at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Michigan State University (East Lansing), the Michigan legislature reduced the annual appropriations for these enormous institutions by about a million dollars apiece. This is a straw in the wind: state legislators are beginning to feel that the demands of state colleges for more and more money have come to resemble a racket. The state legislators are right.