Word: collectively
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...best intended federal regulations may infringe on the ability of colleges to educate their students” what they failed to mention is that as recently as 1997 Congress had amended the Higher Education Act to make student loan debt among the easiest and most lucrative to collect...
Indeed, the power of student loan companies to collect debt is so invasively strong that Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren equated the industries’ methods to that of organized crime. This legislation came about as a result of congressional lobbying by private loan companies under the auspices of funding higher education, coincidentally at a time when government funding of education was hitting bottom. Federal legislation is currently being used by business to make money at the expense of institutions and students. And as long as there is money to be made, scandals will occur and students will be in debt...
...five arms of the brittle star are covered by tiny lenses that, like transition sunglasses, are able to regulate their pigmentation in order to collect the right amount of light. Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientist who is joining the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in July, is devising methods to apply the principles of the underwater animal’s superior lens system to man-made optics.“It is really stealing the principle from biology,” she says.Aizenberg, a 47-year-old mother of two who emigrated from Russia in 1991, comes...
...Harvard purchases such a system, it will have to collect cell phone numbers, something that has plagued text message alert structures at other schools...
...question of whether to require cell phone numbers for registration or simply collect them on a voluntary basis remains unanswered at many schools, according to Macomber...