Review opinion essay by Nicholas S. Zeppos: "Rarely does a month pass without a news story appearing on the skyrocketing cost of higher education. Politicians rail about it. Boards of trustees discuss it at length. Parents and prospective students fret about it as part of the larger affordability crisis. A complex and opaque system of discounting tuition and differential pricing makes it even harder to comprehend. And yet, in a glaring oversight, analysts and experts have rarely communicated to