"People are much more readily accepting of spending x million dollars to build a new stadium than to build a new research facility." Really? It appears to me a

"People are much more readily accepting of spending x million dollars to build a new stadium than to build a new research facility." Really? It appears to me anecdotally that the run-up in tuition has been accompanied by a run-up in university building programs. My alma mater, a large state-related research school with a big sports program, is nearly unrecognizable ten years after I graduated, with a new IS building, a new science building, a new business school building, and a new law school building.