<p>xiggi - if a private college wants an international student enough to pay part of their education, is it the government's role to pressure the university to not provide aid by revoking aid for American students who qualify for it? And if so, where does this role of interferrence end? Would it then be legitimate to pressure private schools to make other policy changes they don't like, such as withholding funds when the school chooses to pay for speakers, artists, political figures to come to the college that the government doesn't approve of? After all, if Claremont can afford to have Joe Wilson (or Newt Gingrich) speak, they certainly don't need any extra money to help out needy students.
These are frills - they can do without!
I'm being facetious, but I fear government meddling in the affairs of
our private schools, and I think you see where I'm going with this.</p>