Word: aid
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...everyone else (although in much greater quantities). Tutoring, another perk Kurzman cites, is available to athletes only through the Study Council, the Writing Center, etc. While the employees of the Athletic Department are predominantly athletes, it also employs other students and senior citizens. Most athletes at Harvard receive financial aid and need to work in order to pay for their education. Or is this perhaps another feature that makes these people unworthy of a Harvard education...
...performed a statistical analysis of the responses, the results seem to indicate a complete lack of trends, Geraghty said. There was no correlation between the quantity of people taking a cram course and "sex, age, race, geographical groups, even who requested and who didn't request financial aid," she said...
...Brien complained that proposed cuts in Federal student aid programs would especially harm this state, where the survey shows 155,668 people work in private higher education. "It's not something that will affect everyone equally. It will affect Massachusetts more," he said of the measure's nationwide impact...
However, this deferment theory eliminates America's ability to use its own morals, interest, and considerable expertise in determining its own policies. We did not reflexively give military aid to anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua because they asked for it. In fact, many people overrode the Contra sentiment, claiming that there were more effective and more moral ways to achieve much-needed reform in this repressive Central American country...
However, the manner in which they conducted themselves was deplorable. Of course, the Contras are unpopular on campus but freedom of speech is not for the popular alone. How would they feel if two of their members tried to speak against Contra aid before a group that was in favor of it, only to be heckled, insulted and chased out of the hall, squirted with fake blood? The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech to ensure that the voice of minorities can be heard. In this case, the Contras are the minority. The protesters could have spoken during the question...