$14,000 in tuition--a dollar at a time.

• Position: College - Tuition costs - Brief article

Smashing windows and setting placards on fire was how some British college students expressed their anger in November over tuition hikes. But Nic Ramos, a sophomore at the University of Colorado, found a less violent way to protest rising tuition costs: by paying his entire spring semester bill--all $14,309.51 of it--with one-dollar bills (plus a fifty-cent coin and a penny). He says tellers in the bursar's office were stunned--and slightly exasperated--when he walked in with a 33-pound duffel bag full of cash last month. According to a spokesperson for the university, it took three people nearly an...