Higher education  The college-cost calamity  Many American
universities are in financial trouble  See article  Readers'
comments    In 1974 it cost me $633 per year in tuition to
attend U.C. San Diego. I think today it is north of $12,000. Add
housing and books, and a kid may graduate with $80,000+ in
loans. Most undergraduate degrees do not lead to a related job
of profession, so it is off to a low wage job or ????  Think
long and hard in choosing your major and what it really means to
make $12 per hour.   The obvious solution is to return to the
core curriculum of 1960. But you can't cut back the psuedo-
disciplines that have infested academia since 1960, because the
professors of Jewish Womyns Studies and Post-modern
Deconstructionism are all tenured. Just imagine if the employees
of GE or IBM were tenured: they'd both be bankrupt.  Josef
Hoffman in reply to inflationist  There is no reason the
relevant content contained in Womyn's studies can't be
incorporated into one lower division English course. If you