A UNIVERSITY is not an ivory tower. The late dean of Gadjah Mada University, Koesnadi Hardjasoemantri, was right when he said that higher education should not be set apart from the people. What is happening today is exactly the opposite: campuses are far from the people as a result of two factors. Higher education is extraordinarily expensive and people's buying power has not recovered from the 1997 financial crisis. Affordability for people decre