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...tempting to describe the ambience of Lanes and Games as unique, except I sadly suspect that it isn’t. I hope the person who arranged the interior decoration was color-blind, but those extraordinary combinations may actually have been considered cool in the early seventies. The walls have a base of faded orange felt over which sail bright red, yellow, green and black stripes. It is as if Bob Marley had fallen into a pool of his own vomit. In fact, it smelled rather like that, as well...
...lead. If I am going to give money to support undergraduate financial aid, I will give to those institutions that extend aid out of an honest, clearly expressed desire to improve student access to a fine education. A proponent of the Senior Gift could further accuse me of blind ignorance—the Senior Gift surely does not endow some malevolent discretionary fund that Harry Lewis uses to enforce a lack of fun over Harvard students. I am not, of course, so naïve as to believe this; instead, I simply believe that the point must be made...
Eventually, a portrait of Helen Keller was placed in the building. The portrait of the first blind graduate of Radcliffe had previously resided in Georgene Herschbach’s office...
...need-blind” admissions policy was an important but long-awaited decision. Starting in 2003, Brown will no longer weigh an applicant’s ability to pay for college during admissions decisions. Brown is the last of the Ivy League universities to become need-blind; this switch means that students from all economic backgrounds applying to elite universities will finally be evaluated solely on their merit—not their money...
...need-blind policy will require about $1.3 million in its first year, which will be covered by a one-time increase in student fees and increased funding from the endowment...