text: Hold on. The article states that 80% of the University's revenue comes from tuition. My argument is that without easy student loans, that percentage would be much, much smaller, because students would just choose not to go if they couldn't afford it (like in the old days). It is impossible to deny that student loans are enabling the University to charge more and the state to provide less, when the amount of loans nationally is $1.3 trillion and on the rise. If that's not taking advantage of indebted students, I don't know what is.