Cartoonist Ted Rall calls it "the pre-bakrupting of America's best and brightest." According to Nellie Mae, the average student borrower leaves college with $27,600 in debt, a major increase from just ten years ago. He says mounting bachelor's degree debt is now hindering a generation of would-be graduate students, homebuyers, and entrepreneurs. Also on the show: American Idol for seniors, conservatives at Berkeley, and the view from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
Kurds and Way
Dr. Barham Salih, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, on why the Kurds support the war but want the Turks to stay out
The Old and the Beautiful
Stuart Krasnow, executive producer of NBC's "Second Chance: The Search for America's Most Talented Senior," on a version of American Idol for seniors
The Loan of Contention
Ted Rall, cartoonist and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate, featured in The Village Voice, says student loans are bad for society
Young Hawks
Ben Barron, news editor for the California Patriot www.calpatriot.org, a conservative student publication at the University of California- Berkeley, on being one of the most embattled minority groups at UC Berkeley: openly conservative students
Open Phones
Bush supporters defend their man despite his lack of curiosity