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...schools protested that they had done nothing wrong. Last week, however, the Ivies -- but not M.I.T. -- signed a consent agreement ending their arrangement. They also canceled an annual "overlap meeting," at which they discussed financial aid for students who had been accepted by two or more schools in the group. Whatever its effect on future aid offers, last week's action was unlikely to hold down private-college tuition bills, which increased by an average of about 10% each year during the 1980s...
...street. To stretch the definition of the word risks stripping away its power. In this view, if it happened on a date, it wasn't rape. A romantic encounter is a context in which sex could occur, and so what omniscient judge will decide whether there was genuine mutual consent...
...terribly surprised. It might make it more difficult for me, but that's no problem," Kramer said of the consent decree...
...consent decree also forces the Ivy League colleges to abandon their long-standing agreement to base financial aid solely on need and not merit...
Indeed, the best aspect of the consent decree for colleges may be that it ended a massive two-year series of investigations and negotiations that was costing a pretty penny: Princeton vice president Robert Durkee estimates that the eight universities have spent a total sum of more than $4 million already in legal and document costs...