Montecitan Martha Salas Balances the Books. The Textbooks.

Montecitan Martha Salas Balances the Books. The Textbooks.

Higher education is expensive. It’s no accident that for decades academic dorm cuisine has been lovingly built around the Cup O’ Noodles® tradition, an affordable scholastic delicacy whose variants include beef, chicken, shrimp, teriyaki, and the always-worrisome “spicy” – an indefinable “flavor” commonly avoided the night before a mid-term.  Apart from higher ed’s tuition, fees, and housing costs, textbooks themselves add several prohibitive po…