Freedom today costs "a buck o-five" ("Freedom Isn't Free" by Trey Parker), but in 1976 it cost ten thousand dollars over a three year period. Note that they did the math to show that 10 thousand times 3 equals 30 thousand. That's because this is from a college newspaper. Yes, we're throwing shade at innumeracy. We're in no mood to coddle willful ignorance. From the [DuPage] Courier, 1978.