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<p>Although many Miamians have convinced themselves that Miami is a private school, the reality is that it still is a public university. It’s not MY Miami…or OUR Miami. It’s the state of Ohio’s Miami.</p>
<p>Can you imagine the political fallout, if it became publicized that Miami was offering the children of alumni better financial aid packages than other Ohioans with similar or better stats? We already have a bad reputation as a snobbish institution that wants to distance itself from the state which founded it. Were we to ever pull a stunt like the one above, every newspaper and legislator in the state would come down on Miami in the worst way–and rightfully so.</p>
<p>If Miami wants to act like a private university, then the Miami alumni need to put their money where their mouth is and raise the hundreds of millions (possibly a billion) of dollars that it would take to buy the buildings and land from the state of Ohio.</p>