A quartet of Dalhousie University students — three in commerce and one in science — has begun their own website, www.paymydegree.com, to try to convince businesses and ordinary folks to pay for their education.

Inspired by the guy who began with one red paper clip and eventually traded up to a house, the students hope to raise about $40,000 this year to pay for their combined tuition costs.

"It’s getting harder and harder for us, for all middle class students basically, to fund our education so we’re trying to figure out new ways that we can do it," 21-year-old Andrew T. Smith, a fourth-year commerce student and the site’s administrator and operations manager, said in an interview Monday...

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