Word: attendents
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...also suspect as a relatively painless way to give a Harvard gloss to an undergraduate degree from a land-grant college and for its networking possibilities. Says a participant: "Where else can a former mayor from Waco, Texas, sit around and chat with former Governors and Senators and attend classes taught by Presidential Scholar Richard Neustadt?" Even government officials seek the school's cachet: a staffer jokes that he heard of a visitor who spoke at a lunch and immediately added "Lecturer, Harvard University, Fall Semester" to his resume...
Abdul Rahman, 45, a professor of Arabic literature at Hebron University, has not taught since December. He worries about his children, who have no school to attend, and spends hours searching for food. "You've got to know who's selling to buy," says Rahman, who has learned to visit butchers and grocers at their homes, where many of them now secretly keep their scarce supplies...
Once Joe's family is in Cambridge, there is the difficulty of finding reasonable accommodations. Friends who live in the area have offered their homes for his sisters, but the remainder of his family will be forced to pay for expensive hotel rooms. Only his parents will attend the $20/person lobster clambake because of its prohibitive cost. Could not some of these problems be alleviated...
...boasts about its need-blind admission policy and the fact that 70 percent of its students receive financial aid. Do students on financial aid receive assistance and support with the expense of graduating from this school? If not, how many of these students and/or their families choose not to attend because of the cost? This university opens its doors and welcomes students without regard to ethnic and socio-economic back-round, then reminds some on their way out that they are still not on equal footing with their graduating classmates...
...question the fairness of a system which sponsors an "elitist" graduation ceremony for its students. Is Harvard trying to uphold its image of being an exclusive institution? I may sound idealistic, but after paying more than $70,000 to attend the university that has the nation's biggest endowment, cannot the events of graduation be complimentary, an award for having achieved an undergraduate education...