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...also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey released on Tuesday, incidents of shoplifting rose nearly 6% over the past year, representing nearly $115 billion in losses for businesses. One of the more surprising findings: a growing number of new shoplifters are outwardly reputable, middle-class people who are walking off with French cheeses, quality meats, cosmetics, mobile phones, clothing and other goodies that they feel they need to maintain a quality of life they can no longer afford. (See pictures of people shopping on Black Friday...
...approximately 4,500 undergraduate students throughout the 1980s and 1990s, according to Schmill, but the university reduced its class size when it began requiring all freshmen to live on campus...
Bloomberg News reported last week that MIT hoped to increase the class size as a means of raising revenue. Schmill denied this explanation, saying that admissions at MIT will continue to be need-blind in the future and that even the full cost of tuition does not cover all the expenses of students’ education. Instead, he said plans for a size increase have raised concerns about the costs more undergrads might entail...
...more student, it probably doesn’t increase your costs that much. If you bring in 20, it probably does—you might need to add an extra section of a class, and you need somebody to teach it. If you bring in 300, you have to house them somewhere. There are increased costs that come with that,” Schmill said...
...dormitory which has been under renovation for several years might be the key to housing the additional students, but Schmill did not know when that renovation will be completed. Administrators have also not decided whether MIT would grow its undergraduate class size by accepting a larger freshman class or by admitting upperclass transfer students...