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Its the patriotic thing to do. 
...always said, "Education is the greatest weapon the United States has and everyone should have access."
It was an argument he used whenever faced with a tax increase. 
words are, the GOP neo-cons don't like anyone who thinks and who wants to broaden their horizons though education. So they decided to punish those that do and wind up voting for the left.
Surprised anyone?????? 
thanks for your "input" 
You don't even know what that means.......... Did you pick that word up on a right-wing site?
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and when I went there It was $18 a semester registration, and sometimes lab fees. And, of course, books. Really-- you could go to college for a hundred bucks or less a year.
Lest you think you get what you pay for, who went to City college, besides me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_City_College_of_New_York_alumni
Here's a partial list, with some names you might know bolded:
(And this is just City College. The list gets a lot longer if you include Queens, Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges, which were also free under the old CUNY)
Nobel laureates:
Julius Axelrod 1933–1970 Nobel laureate in Medicine
Kenneth Arrow 1940–1972 Nobel laureate in Economics
Herbert Hauptman 1937–1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Robert Hofstadter 1935–1961 Nobel laureate in Physics
Jerome Karle 1937–1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Arthur Kornberg 1937–1959 Nobel laureate in Medicine
Leon M. Lederman 1943–1988 Nobel laureate in Physics
Arno Penzias 1954–1978 Nobel laureate in Physics
Robert J. Aumann 1950–2005 Nobel laureate in Economics
Politics, government, and sociology:
Herman Badillo 1951, former Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees, an architect of the University's academic rebirth
Daniel Bell – sociologist, professor at Harvard University
Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents for 40 years, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy
Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
Upendra J. Chivukula – first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly
Henry Cohen 1943 – Director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; Founding Dean the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at the The New School
Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, January 30, 1939 – August 28, 1962
George Friedman – founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analyst
Nathan Glazer – sociologist and professor at Harvard University
Irving Howe – coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
Henry Kissinger – Nobel Peace Prize and Secretary of State, National Security Advisor (did not graduate)
Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989
Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative pundit
Abraham Foxman – National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
Robert T. Johnson 1972 – Bronx District Attorney
Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991
Guillermo Linares 1975 – the first Dominican-American New York City Council Member
Colin L. Powell – United States Secretary of State (2001–2005; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993) and U.S. Army General; National Security Advisor (1987–1989)
{Sal Restivo} 1965 – Pioneer ethnographer of science, one of the founders of the sociology of mathematics, founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
Simon Gourdine - NYC Commissioner of Consumer Affairs under Mayor Koch.
Julius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
Robert F. Wagner Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949
Michele Wallace 1975 – a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
Stephen Samuel Wise 1891– Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist.
The arts[edit source | editbeta]
Maurice Ashley 1993 – the first African-American International Chess Grandmaster.
Paddy Chayevsky – famed playwright and screenwriter, wrote Marty, Hospital and Altered States
Ira Gershwin 1918 – American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
Marv Goldberg 1964 – Music historian in the field of rhythm & blues
Hazelle Goodman 1986 – Stage, screen and TV actress, was the first African-American to hold a leading role in a Woody Allen film, Deconstructing Harry.
Sterling Morrison 1970 – Musician, co-founder of "The Velvet Underground"
Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
Ben Shahn – artist
Luis Guzmán – actor
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – American lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, others)
Judd Hirsch 1960 – American actor
David Margulies – actor
Zero Mostel 1935 – actor
Faith Ringgold 1959 – artist and children's book author and illustrator
Edward G. Robinson 1914 – actor
Frank J. Sciame 1974– architect
Richard Schiff 1983 – Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing (his character, Toby Ziegler, also attended CCNY)
Alfred Stieglitz 1884– photographer
Eli Wallach 1938 (MA) – actor
William Gati, AIA 1981,1982,1984 (BS, BArch, MArch) – Architect and Educator
Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) – Screenwriter ("North by Northwest", "The Sound of Music", "Sweet Smell of Success", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Gabourey Sidibe – actress
Literature and journalism[edit source | editbeta]
Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's
Joe Cioffi 1982 – meteorologist. Initially worked at KRIS-TV in Texas and WVUE-TV in Louisiana and later reported on the weather for News 12 Long Island, WPIX and WNBC.
Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar
Dan Daniel 1910 – Dean of American Sportswriters
Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Jack Kroll 1937 – culture editor, Newsweek
Paul Levinson – author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code (winner, Locus Award, 1999)
Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) – author (won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his novel The Fixer, and another National Book Award for The Magic Barrel, also wrote The Natural (1952) )
Montrose Jonas Moses (1878–1934) author
Walter Mosley 1991 MA – best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards.
Michael Oreskes 1975 – Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune
Mario Puzo – bestselling novelist, screenwriter The Godfather
Selwyn Raab – investigative journalist for The New York Times[1]
A.H. Raskin – former labor editor, The New York Times.
A.M. Rosenthal 1949, former Executive Editor of The New York Times.
Henry Roth – novelist and author of Call It Sleep, a novel on the Jewish immigrant experience.
Robert Scheer – journalist and radio host
Stephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief, Business Week
Anatole Shub – editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters.
Upton Sinclair 1897 (BA) – author of The Jungle (1906)
Robert Sobel 1951 (BSS), 1952 (MA) – best-selling author of business histories.
Gary Weiss 1975 – investigative journalist, author of Born to Steal (2003) and Wall Street Versus America (2006)
Science and technology[edit source | editbeta]
Solomon Asch – psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments
Julius Blank – engineer, member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley
Adin Falkoff – engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
George Washington Goethals 1887 – civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal
Dan Goldin 1962 – served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA.
Robert E. Kahn 1960 – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004
Gary A. Klein 1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making
Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneer
Solomon Kullback – Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
Lewis Mumford – historian of technology
Charles Lane Poor – noted astronomer
Howard Rosenblum 1950 BSEE – NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)
Mario Runco, Jr. 1974 – astronaut.
Jonas Salk 1934 – inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
Philip H. Sechzer 1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
Abraham Sinkov – Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
David B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designer (Class 1906)
Leonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theory
