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Comment by ttyprintk

7 months ago

I bet this describes Whitfield Diffie, who started at MIT in 1961. A riot happened that year over tuition rising from $1200 to $1400 [0]. He’d intended to transfer to Berkeley where tuition for residents was something like $120.

[0] https://alum.mit.edu/slice/what-50000-i-better-practice-more

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