Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials say they do not think the law will negatively affect their business. "Because two-thirds of our students are on financial aid, most of the students will wait while we process their forms," says Gina L. Beradi...
...members of the administration include: Joyce Curll, assistant dean for admissions and financial aid; Sarah Wald, dean of students; Victor A Koivumaki, executive director of the Harvard Law School Association; and Bussey Professor of Law Frank E.A. Sander, associate dean...
Curll was formerly assistant dean of admissions at New York University Law School, where the number of minority students more than doubled and women increased from 34 percent to 50 percent during her tenure. Curll, who could not be reached for comment, will be combining the admissions and financial aid offices for the first time. She told the Harvard Gazette that because between 65 and 70 percent of the student body now receives some amount of financial aid, combining the two offices "provides continuity for students...
THIS FIGURE--about $6 billion in total defaulted loans--drives home the reluctance to repay federal financial aid by the very students who most forcefully speak of the government's obligation to provide it. The public does benefit from the dollars it lays out in return for a better educated populace...
...approach raises old, complicated questions. How much deviation in behavior ought a free society tolerate? Is it rational to enshrine the liberty of those so irrational they cannot understand the nature of their rights? Is it not more humane -- indeed, is it not morally required -- to come to the aid of people who are suffering, no matter their resistance...