'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America

Every parent with a college-age child worries about the spiraling cost of education. The price of a diploma can reach $150,000, even at a state school. A little cost-cutting is in order, and there's no better place to start than at the president's office.
Attorneys for the families of two Virginia Tech students killed in the April 2007 campus massacre are renewing their bid to put the university's president on trial.
The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed so obvious to so many for so long. Just have a playoff.
And here's the playoff pitch.
Playoffs and tournaments long have determined champions of every college sport from baseball to bowling.

Playoffs and tournaments long have determined champions of every college sport from baseball to bowling.
The only things standing in the way of a major college football playoff are 12 university presidents.
The only things standing in the way of a major college football playoff are 12 university presidents. They figure to be more of a speed bump than a road block.
An attorney for the parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 massacre argues that the state's request to throw out a jury's negligence verdict is "fatally flawed."

The commonwealth of Virginia is asking a judge to honor a $100,000 cap on damages in a successful wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the parents of two Virginia Tech students who were among 33 killed in a shooting rampage on the Blacksburg campus nearly five years ago.

A jury found Virginia Tech negligent on Wednesday for waiting to warn students about a gunman during a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 dead.

Jury selection began Monday in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of two Virginia Tech students killed during a campus rampage nearly five years ago.

A campus police officer and another person were found fatally shot at Virginia Tech, but authorities stopped short of confirming reports the second victim was the gunman.
Somebody's likely suffering from the rising cost of college tuition, but it doesn't seem to be the presidents of five Virginia universities who made it on top-paid lists compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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