My son is going to university. He’s paying his own way. It costs a fair bit, but then I assume he’ll get a fair bit out of it. I was disappointed to learn that parking costs $500 per year. And even more disappointed to see that the university enrolls students in its health care plan via negative option billing. In the first two weeks of university, which is a pretty busy time, students have to opt out of the coverage or else they are enrolled for the semester.

With all the talk about expensive tuition, I guess I was naive enough to think that in other ways the academic world would try to keep costs down. Apparently not.