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...particular concern were the significant cuts in government loans for higher education. The cuts, which totaled about $12.7 billion, included raising the interest rates on various loans as well as an end to inflationary increases in the amount of money Pell grants award. According to the College Board, 12.3 million students borrowed money using these government loans in 2004-2005. Such fiscal irresponsibility is unconscionable. These loans are a critical part of student funding for higher education, and the increased interest rates will discourage or prevent deserving students from attending college. With college education playing such an important role...
...Prize, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced last week. Wobber, a biological anthropology concentrator, was selected “for her provocative thesis on the evolution of dog cognition and its bearing upon human evolution,” according to the press release. The Fay Prize is awarded to members of Harvard’s graduating class “who have produced the most outstanding work or piece of original research in any field,” according to the press release. The piece can be a thesis, a project on creative arts, or research for class...
...months before, the former co-captain of the Crimson spent the fall winning her third consecutive New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship, all while preparing for her Rhodes Scholarship finalist interviews. She had already almost won the Quantam Women’s Sailor of the Year award as a junior, finishing second, and she had already been named an All-American twice. Now, as her career comes to a close, she can reflect on winning her third such award. “I’m happy for both of us,” Devlin said, referring...
...best swimmer taking home some hardware at the year-end awards banquet—that’s expected. But it’s not everyday that someone is awarded four trophies in the same season. Senior swimmer Dave Cromwell had a record-setting season and was honored several times at Harvard’s awards banquet, sharing the Harold S. Ullen Trophy (seniors who demonstrate leadership and sportsmanship) and the William J. Brooks Trophy (team MVP) and also receiving the Stowell Trophy (most improved senior) and the Wyman Trophy (highest scorer in dual meets). The seven-time All-American...
...discomfort with feminism, Faludi wrote, was behind false fears of an “infertility crisis” and mistaken beliefs that single women were unfulfilled. Faludi claimed that women needed more of feminism’s influence, not less.The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1992 after becoming a bestseller, and was followed in 1999 by “Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.”In “Stiffed,” Faludi wrote that men’s hostile response to feminism was part of a larger problem...