Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mumber one, Jack Colbourne crushed Jan Koehan, 18-14, 15-11, 15-7, while John Masland and Bobby Geenhill (who won by default) recorded shutouts in their victories...
...asked to remain anonymous, the woman gave police and court officials several different aliases, including Shirley Yu-Plotkin and Shirley Maxer. Saying she "seemed kind of deranged," the police official added that the woman skipped her arraignment proceedings earlier this week. She now faces "arrest on sight" by a default warrant...
...PUBLIC this week was treated to the familiar sight of U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett on the warpath. On this, his latest campaign, Bennett is addressing a disgraceful problem largely ignored by educators, namely the increasingly high rates of default on student loans. As usual, Bennett is getting a lot of attention--not the least of which is coming from Congressmen and university administrators...
Unfortunately, Bennett's plan for dealing with the problem is greatly flawed. If more than 20 percent of a college's students were to default on their loans, the college would lose all federal student aid. This should provide enough incentive for most colleges to keep their students on a short leash...
SOME SCHOOLS, however--especially, for instance, community colleges and Black colleges--suffer high default rates because many of their students come from low-income backgrounds. Ivy League universities have lower rates of default simply because their students--and the schools themselves--have more money. Elite schools, for instance, can afford to set up special bureaucracies to deal with student loan-takers. Bennett's solution most hurts the weakest link in American higher education, and puts too little pressure on students at well-endowed schools whose failure to repay their debts is particularly offensive...