Shrugging her shoulders and explaining that there’s probably no way the loan people can track you down, Brown University President Christina Paxson explained the “Brown Promise” vision of just not paying your loans back. “There are 6,400 of you guys, and if you all agree to not repay your loans, there’s no way they can punish all of you,” said Paxson, adding that she couldn’t believe no one had thought of this before. “You still have to take the loans, take as many as you want, but just don’t pay them back.” Paxson went on to announce that she heard about someone who got away with this once, and it didn’t seem that hard.

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