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...longer follow federal formulas in calculating asset and need data that colleges use in making their own local aid decisions. From here on, parents will have to fill out separate federal forms and FAFs, and perhaps other applications to specific colleges. The colleges use the forms to help construct an offer that combines outright grants with low-interest loans and work-study jobs. They take into consideration the cost of the college, whether the parents have other children in school and unusually high medical bills...
...does learn something from Brent Meuller--that history, because it is a false construct, does not have to be true necessarily. Mulling over documents and picking apart the details of long ago events are fruitless. Historical inquiry will never yield a "correct" version of what happened--because there is no correct version of what happened. It can all be deconstructed down to nothing...
...October 24 issue of The Crimson carried an article entitled "Hungry First-Years Diners Annoy North Residents." The article states that, irritated by "the added traffic in the North House dining hall," some residents "went so far this week as to construct a barricade of chairs to prevent first-years from entering the dining hall from the outside." This is a fact...
...Sumerians in what is now Iraq were already living in cities, drinking beer, keeping time with a primitive clock and transporting goods with their new invention: the wheel. Furthermore, they could record these deeds in the world's first written language. Along the Lower Nile, Egyptians were beginning to construct monumental buildings and decorate stone palettes and other objects with hieroglyphs; craftsmen worked skillfully with copper and silver. In China and Mesopotamia merchants were keeping track of their accounts with primitive numbering systems. In the southwestern Pacific, islanders were sailing double-hulled canoes, having mastered the rudiments of offshore navigation...
...added traffic in the North House dining hall has prompted residents to protest. Some went so far this week as to construct a barricade of chairs to prevent first-years from entering the dining hall from the outside...