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...however, a federal judge in San Francisco has cleared the way for a dramatic challenge to the constitutionality of the VA's claims system. Judge Samuel Conti of the Northern District of California ruled that the administrative system is not "adequate" for reviewing claims of organizations suing on behalf of a broad class of veterans (the class-action lawsuit was filed in July by two veterans organizations). Nor is that bureaucratic process empowered to grant the kind of relief sought by the veterans groups: systemic changes in the VA's processing of disability claims, strengthened rights of individual veterans...
...incident was one of many that Conti-Brown says made him even more self-conscious about his relatively disadvantaged economic background. “At every turn I was expecting that there would be code words I wouldn’t understand or expectations I wouldn’t get,” Conti-Brown recalls. “I was always on guard...
...experiences of Conti-Brown and other students from disadvantaged economic backgrounds were what led in part to the creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) in February 2004 and its subsequent expansion in 2006. Parents in families with incomes of less than $60,000 are no longer expected to contribute to their children’s costs of attending at Harvard. Families that earn a total income of between $60,000 and $80,000 have their expected contributions reduced, and are supported by additional initiatives...
...Conti-Brown, who had worked informally with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid and then-University President Lawrence H. Summers on the project, would become HFAI’s 2004-2005 undergraduate director. He and a group of other students pushed hard for the recruiting of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. HFAI student coordinators spent the summer after HFAI was announced calling thousands of low-income students across the students, encouraging them to apply regardless of concerns about Harvard’s high price...
...perhaps building a diverse student body is enough. “Forcing people to make friends from a different socioeconomic background is, at best laughable,” Conti-Brown, now a student at Stanford Law School, points out. “All that can be done is to continue admitting a critical mass of students, increasing the diversity of the student body [so] that, hopefully diverse friendships can form naturally...