Word: gaudiani
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people do it because of the romance of rowing on the Charles River, some do it to get a good workout," said Jennifer M. Gaudiani '97, a former Dunster crew team captain. Some students are also drawn to the social atmosphere of the House crew teams, which helps establish new friendships and strengthen existing relationships. The common bond among all House rowers? An admiration for the beauty of the sport...
Much of this, charges Claire Gaudiani, president of Connecticut College, amounts to "dirty tricks." She argues that duplicitous parents are cheating the needy, defrauding taxpayers and forcing colleges to waste money on detective work. Other administrators agree. Says Orlo Austin, aid director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "There's a whole group of people out there who make their living finding loopholes that were never intended." Families say that everyone else is doing it, that no one gets hurt and that college costs are way out of line. But in fact someone often does get hurt, since...
...Gaudiani fumes over this "get whatever you can" attitude. Like most educators, and unlike financial experts, she views colleges more as charitable institutions than as businesses. "It's wrong for us who have an education and who have all the privileges to teach each other how to cheat," she says. Her harsh analogy is not to income-tax advice but to outright theft. "It's easy for a lot of people to condemn youngsters who walk into stores that have been blasted open and take things that don't belong to them. Everyone calls that looting, and it's certainly...