USM President Shelby Thames echoed Khayat's concerns. "We have paid a price by increasing our enrollment. We have larger class sizes, lower faculty pay and decreased services," he said.

So things are not as well in River City as we have been led to believe by those statements made to the media, huh?

 "We have paid a price by increasing our enrollment." Gee, maybe we could pay an even bigger price if we increased our enrollment to 20,000.