At New York University, one of the most expensive colleges in the country, tuition covers all the basics: affordable housing, Chick-fil-A, access to world-renowned professors at an internationally recognized university, Fire Island summer homes, multi-million dollar mortgages at criminally fantastic interest rates, and secret funds reserved for massive loans paid out of the tax exempt NYU School of Law Foundation. We can now add housing for NYU President John Sexton's son, former aspiring actor Jed Sexton, to the list.

New documents obtained by the New York Post reveal that two one-bedroom apartments of law school housing on 240 Mercer Street were converted into a duplex for newlyweds Jed Sexton and Danielle Decrette in the spring of 2002. John Sexton was the Dean of the Law School until May 2002 when he took over as president of the school.

As for whether Jed and his wife paid market rates for the apartment, NYU spokesman John Beckman declined to comment to the Post. Current rates put a one bedroom in the building at around $3,000 a month.

Decrette was working as an administrative assistant at the university during those years, and Jed was no doubt working on Mattie Fresno & the Holoflux Universe, despite the building being designated for law school students and faculty. NYU has a portfolio of over 2,000 rental apartments available. Sexton and his wife had lived separately on campus since the early 1990s. The Post cites the timing of the duplex combination, noting that in a "March 8, 2002 report by John Sexton’s presidential transition team, the housing shortage was threatening the school’s ability to attract new faculty at the time."

That same report would be the one to suggest a new kind of carrot: "Gradually moving in the direction of the private market will accomplish at least three objectives: assisting us in meeting the competition, positioning NYU to accommodate differing needs of key faculty, and helping to anchor such faculty to the University through forgivable loans and shared equity features."

Increasing the quality of the student body was a priority as well, but the report encouraged the low-cost options:

Many of the initiatives have direct financial costs, such as offering more and better scholarships, more and better student housing, and a better faculty-student ratio at many schools. But other techniques are available at lower cost that will enhance the NYU experience, including a more efficient and welcoming administration, congenial physical space for studying and meetings, and top to bottom engagement with the career goals and problems of our students. (Emphasis ours)

Graduate employees at NYU voted to unionize in December 2013, after losing their status in 2005. Jack Lew, NYU's ex-Executive Vice President of Operations who left with that $685,000 severance pay to work at CitiBank, was a key player in the fight against the union.

This is the latest black eye for John Sexton, who is set to retire in 2016 (he'll get an $800,000 annual pension). Salary growth at NYU stagnated at the lower levels, tuition increased 68% in a decade to $44,848 in 2012, the controversial NYU 2031 expansion plan was developed and put in motion (rubber stamped by the Bloomberg Administration and New York Times) and NYU gained the dubious honor of endowing its students with the largest amount of debt of any school in the country ($659 million).

Not to mention the massive global expansion, the most prominent of which is NYU's four-year satellite campus in Abu Dhabi. The construction bill is being footed the Abu Dhabi government and built mostly by modern slave labor.

During his tenure as president, Sexton also taught an annual seminar called "Baseball as a Road to God," which was a very stupid class (and book) about baseball and theology. Despite all of this, NYU is still a very good school. Observe the glassy eyes and perfect beard of a defensive Sexton exchange pained grimaces with a smug Ariel Kaminer in the annoying video below.