DenverPost.com - HOME: "CU's helping hands can do more without strings attached
By Jim Spencer
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Call it compassion versus convolution. Call it charity versus business. Call it thinking versus overthinking.
Whatever you call it, the reactions of Colorado State University and the University of Colorado to Hurricane Katrina victims are as different as the images the two institutions have developed.
CSU, the putative 'agriculture school' because of its land-grant status, made things straight as a row plowed in a farmer's field. Any student enrolling from a Gulf Coast college closed by Katrina will pay no more for tuition than a Coloradan.
CU, the so-called 'flagship' school because of its presumed intellectual horsepower, came up with a system as hard to explain as its recently proposed 28 percent tuition increase.
CU will consider each of Katrina's victims on his or her ability to pay the school's out-of-state tuition, said university president Hank Brown. There is no guarantee they will get any help with the $20,000 bill."
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