Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Money + MU = bad

[Jason McIntosh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 12/9/02 8:34 AM, "Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

> I contend that they were over 21, and therefore were not youths any more. :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Procter [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 8:31 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Money + MU = bad
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> 
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:39:48AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Jonathan King wrote:
>> 
>>> Now, the really scary thing these days is that the university just LOST
>>> the big lawsuit over their charging tuition at a time when state law
>>> forebade that.
>> 
>> 
>> Having moved to Minnesota, I'm missing some of your local news.  Can
>> someone please explain this?  Had the state legislature required that the
>> University provide services free of charge?
>> 
> 
> Some law students dredged up an 1872 law which says "youths" of the
> state may attend without paying tuition and filed a class action
> lawsuit.  The University contends that it charged incidental fees, not
> tuition, but apparently the judge wasn't impressed with that argument.
I'll also make the contention that being lawyers, they aren't human and
don't fall under the category of youths, but of rodentia.
Jason

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