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There are important initiatives that will help defray the costs of coursework, like putting needlessly expensive coursepacks online, and giving students the tools to purchase the cheapest books at locations other than the COOP. But it’s only an initiative like C-CAP that is going to assist the students dealing with the worst financial hardship, some of whom use their work-study money not just for themselves but to send home to their families...
Several solutions have been proposed as a way to resolve this embarrassment, but the Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP) is the best step toward treating high book costs like the academic impediment that they are. C-CAP would grant stipends to low-income students for their course books. However, in a fall meeting with student representatives from the Undergraduate Council (UC) and the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, a financial aid officer said that the administration was hesitant to take on something like C-CAP for fear of giving donors the impression that Harvard students don?...
...CAP isn’t just a dream concocted by naïve students. Thanks to the leadership of Chaz M. Beasley ‘08 and Amadi P. Anene ’08, almost all the logistical barriers in C-CAP’s implementation have been removed. After a careful study, they came up with the best possible program to tackle the problem of high book costs in the form of stipends for low-income students. They have found a way to implement it that insures the discretion of these students. They have even secured a good deal...
...about some lunch," said McClung, popping her brown eyes wide open as she flashed me a big smile. It was an obvious effort to cheer me up, and I gratefully accepted. McClung put a cap over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah...
...thin and need more forces overall. Schoomaker, a former Special Forces officer who was brought back from retirement to run the Army, last week said the Army would "break" without an increase. Congress has allowed the Army to temporarily grow by 30,000 soldiers beyond its active-duty cap of 482,000. It is about 5,000 troops short of that goal. Army officials want the temporary increase to be permanent, and many favor a still larger increase. Schoomaker said that the Army could accommodate an annual increase of up to 7,000 troops...