Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 22, 2023

Zipper just saved Joanie and Rick a few bucks.

The academic qualities of Walden are increasingly in doubt.

Zipper as the voice of experience; awesome and so believable. /s

Back in my day, there was a Walden.

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“How about the commemorative plate of the month?”

A predisposition to fall for that is one of the criteria for pre-selection.

Well, you have to buy the books being flogged by your professors, so prepare to reach deep. Probably bend over to do it.

We hand out diplomas in complementary Cracker Jack boxes

This thread of toons actually was dead on, on the joke that colleges have become. Mainly a money making enterprise that preys on the young. If you don’t get a medical, engineering, or teaching degree; you better have connections or be at the top of you class if you hope to ever pay off the debt. Wonder if Trudeau realized this when he wrote the thread?

You all are also entered in a sweepstakes for an Honorary Doctorate in Credulity.

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The sad truth is that colleges are businesses, like anything else in America. And there are colleges that will accept nearly everyone who applies, in order to get those tuition payments and build up their student body.

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