For nearly 10 years in the 1980s and ?90s I worked in UW-Madison?s Ogg Hall. Ogg was populated mostly by freshmen required to live on campus….I’ll bet that many of them, looking back, would not trade the time spent in the dorm for the opportunity to live in a residential “palace.” The incomes of student families then were closer than now to the median for the state. Today most families can’t envision their kids getting into UW, let alone being able to pay for it. This may help explain the frayed support for UW-Madison among many taxpayers.
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