U of Akron Alum Sued by School for Unpaid Tuition

• Fear the Roo.

The shoulders of a lot of public institutions — universities included — are heavy with the weight of growing financial burdens. Budgets are getting the slash and burn everywhere and public funding is on a crash diet, which means a lot of these outfits have dispatched frantic search parties looking for every last dollar they can find. For some colleges and universities, that means going after unpaid fees. And we're not just talking about the price tag for that copy of Tropic of Cancer you never returned.