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Today, Fitzsimmons has figured out a way to get behind the College Board’s moratorium on income-tracking. He and his team search for high-performing students in zip codes they know to be blue-collar or below...
Central to that message, says Fitzsimmons, is financial aid. “The general public misconceives how much Harvard costs,” he says. “And that’s especially true in blue-collar backgrounds. Joint-travel allows us to get the families in the room, which is very, very critical...
...He’s a great guy for the locker room, the kind of kid we need on our team,” said assistant captain and blockmate Tyler Kolarik. “Just a blue-collar...
...were remarkably rare. One Notre Dame fan chalked it up to the “better class of people” that attended said game. “This is a top-notch college,” he commented, “it’s not really the blue-collar crowd that goes to an NFL game or something...
These are of course long overdue thanks for a group of public servants who, maybe because they are blue-collar workers who don’t necessarily have big salaries or college degrees, don’t get the respect they deserve. It is a sentiment that has come from the top down in American civic life, as politicians like President Bush quickly jumped on the praise bandwagon for police and firefighters. Yet in a move not uncharacteristic of U.S. politicians in general and the Bush administration in particular, the “common” men and women...