LAST WEEK, addressing a meeting of state college trustees, Gov. Corbett suggested that colleges and universities could fix that hole he blasted into their budgets when he cut higher-education funding in half by turning some of their land over to gas drilling.
Sure, and while we're at it, why not convert university student centers to slots parlors? Or let developers build shopping malls on all those college football fields that get used only a few times a year? And we don't need to stop at extracting revenue from our campuses; imagine the revenue possibilities from cheap labor provided by students. All those call centers and assembly lines now operated by underpaid East Asians could just as easily be operated by Pennsylvania college students for academic credit instead of cash, bringing a gold mine to the universities.