Debate Team: College protesters should focus on future, not funding freezes

First off, to my esteemed colleague Nick, who assumes I "haven't heard of or experienced" either the dizzying heights of education costs or the depressing depths of student loan debt, I have just one little number for you: $30,000.

Or at least I think it's around $30,000-ish. I stopped keeping track of how much student loan debt I have after I signed my fourth-ish (or was it fifth?) loan application to continue my education at a private Jesuit college. I'm pretty sure some banker somewhere is holding a promissory note signed in blood for my first-born child.