Especially since that was back before the Legislature really abdicated any financial responsibility for the U of O and my income taxes were paying for more of it than they do today, that question tended to make me a little cranky as well.  My children weren't black or native American minorities or financially disadvantaged because both I and my wife worked, so maybe all the scholarship money went to affirmative action.   The non-minority middle class are the payers, not the recipients of governmental largesse, even that doled out by Duck U.  I've always commented on the fact that the Asian minorities in this country aren't treated any better than the Caucasians, however.  Wonder why that is; and why so many of them seem to excel in the difficult and therefore high-paying fields like math and science.  The phrase 'work ethic' keeps running through my mind, though.