Billy Crystal After graduation from Long Beach High School in 1965, Crystal attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal never played baseball at Marshall because the program was suspended during his first year. He did not return to Marshall as a sophomore, instead deciding to stay in New York to be close to his future wife. He attended Nassau Community College with Janice and later transferred to New York University, where he was a film and television directing major. He graduated from NYU in
Excelsior Scholarship 2018, and $125,000 in 2019). By the time the program is fully implemented, an estimated 200,000 will be eligible. The Excelsior Scholarship requires graduates to live and work in New York state for the number of years that they received the scholarship, which Sara Goldrick-Raab, among others, say will cost New York and scholarship recipients money and is fundamentally unfair. Senator Bernie Sanders praised the program as an example of the free college programs he supports but some in the free college movement say that it falls into the same trap as existing scholarship programs in being complicated and trapping