The administration at a certain university has explained this year' s tuition increase by citing increased spending on faculty salaries and on needbased aid to students  However, this year' s budget indicated that faculty salaries constitute a small part of the university' s expenditure, and the only significant increases in scholarship aid have gone to academic scholarships awarded regardless of need
The administration' s explanation is not believable
With this year's budget, the university has increased its total spending on scholarship aid by 5 percent.