<p>I suppose Roth could have gone “on and on” about the senator and two sitting governors it has currently serving in office. Or, the second Apker Prize for Physics won by a Wesleyan undergraduate in three years. Sounds like he was trying to please the crowd.</p>
<p>Keep us posted on those “little projects”. From what I hear, both Amherst and Williams will be performing budgetary triage for the next decade in order to pay down the debt they’ve incurred for costly building projects. In fact, they’ve both been so spendthrift over the past twenty years that their Moody’s ratings are only marginally better than Wesleyan’s despite having much bigger endowments “$$$ ps”. Wesleyan is so much better run than either of those schools that its even been able to expand the threshold below which families receive -0-debt financial aid (from 40k to 60) while keeping tuition increases at or below the rate of inflation for two years running.</p>