It came as little surprise when, earlier this month, Purdue President Mitch Daniels announced the school would extend its tuition freeze another year. The bigger financial news was the offering of a $500 bonus to employees making less than $75,000 a year. Our listeners want to know where the money is coming from, and why it’s not being added to the pool of merit raises, so people get more of a structural increase in their salary and benefits. And the longer the tuition freeze goes on and the