He's wearing cargo pants, sneakers, a white Purdue golf shirt, and a black baseball hat emblazoned with degree in 3, a plug for the university's new plan to let students shave a year off undergrad. It's an hour before the Boilermakers' first home football game, and the 68-year-old former two-term Indiana governor strides toward a concession stand."Mitch!" says a man standing at a high-top table. Everyone at Purdue-students, parents, faculty, administrators, alumni, guys at high-top tables he's never met-calls Daniels by his first name. The man praises him for freezing tuition through 2019. Daniels responds that current Purdue students will be among the first in more than 30 years to graduate without an increase. "That's good, because we're paying for two!" the man says.
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