From the Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2003 issue

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What They Don't Tell You In The Brochure

Street Eats

Your professors are more destitute than you.
One thing about Cornish not mentioned in the brochure is that the professors are dirt poor. According to a May 2000 national survey of the lowest salaries of full professors, Cornish took dead last with $27,800, which translates, after taxes, into roughly $850 per check. This paycheck must somehow absorb these harsh realities, which can be found on www.cityofseattle.net: "A one bedroom apartment rents for an average of $786 per month.... For a janitor or retail sales clerk [or a full professor at Cornish], this means rent comprises more than [or near to] 48% of their gross income. For a full-time minimum wage worker, the figure is over 66%. To purchase Seattle's average $310,000 home would require an average family income of more than $80,000 per year." In short: Cornish professors don't eat and are homeless. The fact that they are alive at all, let alone teaching classes, is a miracle of the first order. Charles Mudede

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