Tuition leaps as government pulls out of the business of government and privatizes the University. UW Engineering grad Ben Linder, killed by CIA-backed Contras while building small rural water projects in Nicaragua, has no memorial on campus. The HUB is now run as a business, not a student resource. He says tuition should jump substantially right away. Commercial advertising is banned from UW billboards, but commercial advertisers dominate the spaces that are designated for campus communication.
Most universities provide space for student organizations to hang banners promoting student events.
UW provides no place for this basic communication. Research at UW is influenced by corporate interests and the drive to prioritize profits, not the public interest. The WTO wants to privatize all public institutions through the General Agreement on Trade in Services and the Government Procurement Agreement. Bill Gates Jr. bought an academic chair in Genetic Engineering at the UW to promote his vision of the future. In the 1950s, corporate taxes were high.