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Pork for pupils. (Tidbits & Outrages).


Cast-trapped students at Missouri's Lindenwood University Lindenwood University is a four-year liberal arts institution in St. Charles, Missouri, just northwest of St. Louis and St. Louis County. Lindenwood offers many undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a newly authorized Doctor of Education program that began in January 2007.  needn't fear their next tuition bill--an innovative new barter barter: see exchange.
barter

Direct exchange of goods or services without the use of money or any other intervening medium of exchange. Barter is conducted either according to established rates of exchange or by bargaining.
 system, devised by a Republican state legislator LEGISLATOR. One who makes laws.
     2. In order to make good laws, it is necessary to understand those which are in force; the legislator ought therefore, to be thoroughly imbued with a knowledge of the laws of his country, their advantages and defects; to
, lets students pay with pork in lieu of cash: $3,200--worth of pigs will cover two semesters. The Missouri Pork Producers Association, no doubt hog--wild about the idea, is helping to raise awareness.
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