“I am a graduate student at an expensive Ivy League university. The federal government’s guaranteed student loan program already has financed $5,000 of my educational costs, and substantial additional debt looms on my horizon. My father, an honest, hard-working bookkeeper, earns substantially less than does my mother, a public schoolteacher. Certainly I, if anyone, should join the ranks of those who, in their own self-interest, have marched on Washington to protest cuts in aid to students. Why, then, have I hesitated?” (written 07/82; posted 07/12/07)