October 27, 2006

An Honors Education at a Bargain-Basement Price

By ELYSE ASHBURN

It is hard to decide whether the atmosphere in Room 202 of the Humanities Building feels more like a twentysomething house party or a high-school homeroom. Probably the latter, since the young adults here at Montgomery College, a two-year institution in a suburb of Washington, are clutching lattes rather than glasses of merlot. Garb runs the gamut from hooded sweatshirts to T-shirts stamped with witticisms like "Music Happens." Outside, it is an altogether uninspiring autumn day, cool and

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