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...term was ending in a burst of 5-to-4 decisions, the court ruled on a controversy involving public schools in Seattle and Jefferson County, Ky. Parents had sued to end policies that classified children by race and--occasionally--used this data in determining which school students would attend. The goal of the programs was to make schools racially diverse even if neighborhoods were...
...allow seven students from the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force to lead the closing procession in Harvard Yard in a flag-bearing ceremony known as a color guard. In June, Faust and then-Interim President Derek C. Bok drew fire from The Wall Street Journal for not attending the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony. Both Faust and Bok said they were unable to attend the event due to prior commitments. Faust was not available for comment yesterday. Daniel K. Bilotti ’09, an Army cadet in charge of organizing color guards, said that ROTC members did not originally...
...accepted student is offered a scholarship that completely covers tuition. Morales, whose family would have been unable to pick up the tab for four years of college without financial aid, ultimately forwent the ivy-laden gates of Harvard Yard and now—surprisingly—pays more to attend tuition-free Olin than he would have had he come to Cambridge.For many the idea of a free private college education is a fantasy, as tuition rates around the country climb upwards at alarming speeds with no end to the rise in sight. According to “Making Harvard...
...anybody show up to see it?That’s the question that clogs up my mind, as visions of sitting on press row at the NCAA Tournament go dancing through my head.Is that dream a reality without the student body getting behind its team?We had 1995 students attend last season’s biggest game of the year, when eventual Ivy League champion Penn came into Lavietes at the end of February.I wonder if it’s possible to challenge the best in the Ivies without a “sixth man,” without that...
...turns out, however, that not everything about the Frosts' life pops up on a Google search. While Graeme does attend a private school, he does so on scholarship. Halsey Frost is a self-employed woodworker; he and his wife say they earn between $45,000 and $50,000 a year to provide for their family of six. Their 1936 rowhouse was purchased in 1990 for $55,000. It was vacant and in a run-down neighborhood that has improved since then, in part because of people like themselves who took a chance. It is now assessed at $263,140, though...