Somebody needs to sit down Kent State University president Lester Lefton and have a little chat with him. Homie seems to have gotten the impression that college is about trying out a bunch of classes, or some other nonsense. I nominate the Kent State student who told the Kent News that college is “just one big party with a cover charge.”

According to the Kent News:

If tuition stays the same, an undergraduate living on campus will have spent $33,720 on tuition alone after eight semesters at Kent State.

As one such undergraduate said, "It's just one big party with a cover charge."

That's one way to look at it.

But Kent State's administrators are hoping by graduation, students will gain something from the university more lasting than a headache - and more useful, too.

"We're complicated people," President Lester Lefton said. "We can do lots of different things. You can be an artist and a psychologist. You can be a scientist and religious. You can be a sports enthusiast and a scholar."

He didn't say beer connoisseur and temperance activist; perhaps that's a little too complicated. But his contention about human complexity resounds at a liberal education university.

"Isn't it the point of a college education," Lefton said, "to create well-rounded individuals who are not unidimensional, who can see the world through different lenses?"

Oh Lefton, you liberal arts softy! No that’s not the point of a college education! We just hate the Real World (the television show and that place where you work nine to five.)