----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I don't understand the specific link to film and television studies on this posting. It strikes me as pure political propaganda for more tax money, not reasoned argument. There is a convincing school of thought, best found in Charles Sykes excellent book "Profscam," that federal aid has harmed higher education and led to much of the political correctness now found on campus. Cutting federal aid will hurt bureaucrats who administer it, not students. My parents went to college for FREE at CCNY, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Hunter College before federal aid. Now that federal aid exists, all charge tuition, to take advantage of the system of reimbursements. All have huge bureaucracies to administer it. Cutting federal aid will restore the superior free education found in American state and city universities prior to the 1960's. Larry Jarvik CSPC