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100
What is the author's name?
What is Thomas Frank
100
What is a utopia?
What is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
100
True or False: the author believes college should either be free or cheap.
What is true.
200
Journalist for what magazine?
What is Harper's magazine
200
What is the definition of affluent?
What is to be incredibly wealthy.
200
True or false: the author believes that student loans should include no interest and be dischargeable in bankruptcy.
What is true.
300
What is the name of the author's most notable book?
What is What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004).
300
What is a political system that is taking over our universities according to the author?
What is capitalism.
300
What extra-curricular does the author think is a waste of time and money?
What is football.
400
Where was the author born?
What is Kansas City, Missouri.
400
What is the definition of solidarity?
What is unity or agreement in action.
400
What is Ginsberg's description of what administrators do on a day-to-day basis?
What is to "constantly expand their own numbers, replace professors with adjuncts, to subject professors to petty humiliations, to interfere in faulty hiring, [and] to distill the professors' expertise down to something that can be measured by a standardized test." (10)
500
Which universities did the author attend?
What is the University of Kansas, the University of Virginia, and the University of Chicago.
500
What is an adjunct?
What is a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part.
500
True or false: the author believes college is exactly how it was 100 years ago.
What is false.