... before 1995, it used to be illegal for schools in the University of Missouri system to charge resident students tuition?
The University of Missouri has reached an agreement to create a $10 million scholarship fund to settle a lawsuit over whether state residents were required to pay tuition based on 19th century law.
An estimated 104,000 former and current students, plus their children and spouses, can apply for scholarships.
The lawsuit, filed in 1998 by a group of students from the Columbia and St. Louis campuses, was based on an 1872 state statute that said all "youths, resident of the state of Missouri," should be admitted to the university system "without payment of tuition."
The university argued that students paid "education fees" and not tuition.
Here we go with semantics again. Anyways, this silly law has since been changed.