We'll simply get more of what I saw yesterday at the supermarket - a young Hispanic couple who could speak very little English with a young kid in tow and a shopping cart overflowing with groceries - all paid for by you and me with an EBT card at the checkout.

The bubble has popped - loudly - at the state university where I work in Illinois. Enrollment is down 17% in the last six years. In just the last two years, we've shut down or demolished three major residence halls (with space for 2000 students) because there simply aren't enough students here anymore. Room & board, tuition and fees are now $21,000 a year - and we're the cheapest state school! Administrators don't seem to understand this is simply unaffordable for many people, but they keep raising tuition each year! However, in the last decade, we've spent tens of millions on non-educational things like a "diversity center," rec center, countless administrators, and fancy dorm upgrades. We also continue to support degree programs (African-American studies, women's studies, etc.) that serve no real purpose on campus or off. Next week, the president is having a campus-wide budget meeting, the second one in a month. If some major changes are not made regarding our operating expenses and our tuition costs, this university will not exist in 20 years.

Someone needs to stand up at this graduation ceremony and read LOUDLY the Preamble to the State Constitution of Georgia: "To perpetuate the principles of free government, insure justice to all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the citizen and of the family, and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty, we the people of Georgia, relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution."

As a professor, I can tell you the "cool" factor appears to be a large part of it. I've also had numerous students tell me they voted for him simply because they wanted "to be a part of history" in voting for the first black president. Many also voted for him to prove they're not racist. One classroom incident summed it up for me in 2008. A white student near the front of the class had an Obama button on his backpack on the first day of class. When he put the backpack on the floor beside his desk, the button was facing toward me. When he noticed five or six black students at the back of the class, he reached down and turned the backpack around... obviously hoping the blacks would notice his button.

You open a Pandora's box here. Legally, if it's about eliminating "discrimination," then the law should not discriminate against the following marriages: Mother and son Mother and daughter Father and daughter Father and son Two brothers Two sisters Grandmother and grandson Uncle and niece One man and two women (after all, we need to get rid of these "outdated notions" that marriage is limited to just two people). How far do we go with this? In numerous conversations, I have found most same-sex marriage supporters are opposed to all of the above when I mention them. When I ask them why, they say, "Well, a mother and son getting married is just wrong!" Really? Why? Who are you to discriminate?

True. I always tell my students they are free to disagree with anything I say. I tell them I am not the be-all and end-all of intelligence and insight. Still, I see so many students becoming zombies because they simply want to pass the class. If they have to kiss the professor's butt to do that, they're more than happy to do so. At the same time, I'll bet the students and the university would have reacted much more quickly and with much more "outrage" if the professor had asked them to write any one of the following things on that paper: Mohammed, Obama, Homosexual, Gay Marriage, Abortion, Black, Hispanic, Minority, Arab, Woman, Sustainability, Diversity, Multiculturalism, etc.

That's right. At the state university where I work, tuition is $8,200. HOWEVER, a senior student living on campus showed me her TOTAL bill for this year... $21,500! Room and board is $9,000. There was more than $4,000 in various "fees." Oh - that $21,500 bill didn't include her books and lab fees (more than $1,000) and other expenses. She says her total bill for four years will easily be $90,000. By the way, we're a small "cheap" state university of 10,000 students. As for the bubble, our enrollment has dropped 17% in the last six years. The hardest-hit majors are ones like communication, sociology, women's studies, art - that's because people are beginning to flee from majors that don't translate to real-world jobs.

Thanks, Pistol. I was just about to write the same thing. On top of that, the Cogans of this world will then teach their children how to follow in their footsteps. It's just a cycle of dependency and laziness handed down from generation to generation. I don't ask Ms. Cogan to feed and clothe my kids. She needs to grow up and be a responsible adult. As a parent, I alone am responsible for my children.

Thanks, Pistol. I was just about to write the same thing. On top of that, the Cogans of this world will then teach their children how to follow in their footsteps. It's just a cycle of dependency and laziness handed down from generation to generation. I don't ask Ms. Cogan to feed and clothe my kids. She needs to grow up and be a responsible adult. As a parent, I alone am responsible for my children.

Um, this is what soldiers do. They kill the enemy. The only issue I see is for Harry himself. He's obviously a high-profile person, and his bragging makes him even more of a high-profile target for terrorists down the road. Then again, he and his family knew that going in.