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Much of this, charges Claire Gaudiani, president of Connecticut College, amounts to "dirty tricks." She argues that duplicitous parents are cheating the needy, defrauding taxpayers and forcing colleges to waste money on detective work. Other administrators agree. Says Orlo Austin, aid director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "There's a whole group of people out there who make their living finding loopholes that were never intended." Families say that everyone else is doing it, that no one gets hurt and that college costs are way out of line. But in fact someone often does get hurt, since...
According to Shea S. Riley, coordinator of Students for Braun at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, "A lot of [college students] tell me that they are voting only to vote for Carol Moseley Braun." Riley also noted that Braun's name recognition has reached an astonishing 90 percent in Illinois...
...that way? So far, none of the gender scientists have figured out whether nature or nurture is more important. "Nothing is ever equal, even in the beginning," observes Janice Juraska, a biopsychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She points out, for instance, that mother rats lick their male offspring more frequently than they do their daughters. However, Juraska has demonstrated that it is possible to reverse some inequities by manipulating environmental factors. Female rats have fewer nerve connections than males into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with spatial relations and memory. But when Juraska "enriched...
...behavior of ionized gases in a computer simulation, for example, than it is to build a full-scale nuclear- fusion reactor. "We've whetted an awful lot of scientific appetites," says Larry Smarr, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
Heinrich Schliemann: The Myth and the Scandal--with William Calder, professor of classics with the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In the Boylston Hall auditorium...