Word: aid
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...members of the presidential search committee will not be chosen until November, Northeastern officials said. But in addition to the 12-member search committee, Northeastern will also appoint a special committee of the Board of Trustees to aid in the presidential search...
Perhaps the most sophisticated aid to the handicapped is an eye-tracking system built by Thomas Hutchinson, a University of Virginia engineer. Using a technology developed for jet-fighter pilots, Hutchinson's device measures the reflection of light from the retina to determine where on a computer display the eye is gazing. A person equipped with the eye tracker simply looks at a command on the screen and the computer executes it. "The last thing to go in the body is the eye muscle," says Hutchinson. "With this system we have an opportunity to free minds that are trapped inside...
...such twisted history would ignore the lack of success Bennett had on reversing college costs or addressing the drug crisis. It would also ignore the fact that Bennett led the administration's dangerous policy of attempting to cut student aid and shift the burden from grants to loans, which most experts agree is the real reason for today's record default rates. And despite all of Bennett's bluster, Congress consistently refused to go along with his requests for cuts, leaving him with a record of few substantive accomplishments...
...even with Bennett gone, colleges and universities are not off the hook. While the next Republican administration will probably realize the futility of slashing federal funding for student aid and avoid polarizing the education community the way Bennett did, pressure to keep tuitions down will remain...
...student group formed to aid Black South African schools met for the first time last night.About 20 members of Aid to South African Students (ASAS) heard a description of those schools' inadequacies from Saths Cooper, president of the South African Zanani Movement (SAZM). Cooper said his group represents about three-quarters of Black South African students studying in the United States...