CAN'T BLAME IT ON "OUTSIDE AGITATORS". Students at Mankato State get case of Gopher Envy. Legislators propose withholding financial aid or otherwise sanctioning students convicted of drunk and disorderly, subject to horizontal equity considerations. This SCSU Scholars post proposes an economics question, and provides the Recommended Opening for any answer. In other news from James J. Hill country, the faculty senate rejects a Marcusian civility code.

Historical note: the large tuition discount offered to state residents enrolling at state-located universities, for which the official rationale relies on who pays the taxes, grew during the years of frequent campus protest, particularly if legislators could point to arrest records with lots of home addresses in other states. Northern Illinois University has on occasion waived the out-of-state premium for extension courses, for reasons that might not be limited to Wisconsin or Indiana residents working in Greater DeKalb.