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...this regard, increasing expenditures on Pell Grants and other federal aid programs is vital. As the number of students attending college continues to grow, funds are increasingly spread thinner among applicants. The number of students receiving the Pell Grant is expected to grow by more than 20 percent this year relative to 2000. While the monetary value of each award has increased over time, it has not kept up with rising prices—$12 billion dollars is needed to restore the purchasing power of Pell Grants to its level in the 1970s. This is a lot of money...
...University. Last year, we found ourselves with a $1,600 deficit that was fortunately overcome by the generous private contributions of our staff and Faculty advisors. As a start-up magazine with an enormous potential to fill an important void in campus life, we were thrilled by a $550 grant from the council. This year, we contently received a $250 one, despite being in dire need of grant funding. We will probably end up coming out even this year, but only after spending an unbelievable amount of time soliciting funding through advertisements, fundraisers and alumni campaigns—time that...
...then we suddenly learned that H Bomb, the proposed campus magazine on sex and sexuality, had been awarded a $2,000 grant from the council. We support the mission of this newly-founded publication—but we found it difficult to see the fairness of the grant application process in this case. After inquiring with council representatives, we were given an answer that boiled down to a simple assertion: that H Bomb would have an unusually large impact on an under-examined area of student life. This is true enough, but isn’t it also true...
...Bomb may well deserve a substantial grant, but what of publications with records like the one Cinematic has established in such a short time? The only record H Bomb has established thus far is to make the news—fairly or not—as a University-sponsored “porn” magazine. If Cinematic’s accomplishments are not significant enough for the representatives of the student body at Harvard, while H Bomb garners such disproportionate funds, then we feel extremely frustrated and distanced from the body that is supposed to represent...
...Bomb may well be sold to students and not freely distributed. If the publication is actively read by 4,000 students—the assumption that the council made in its grant evaluation—then one would presume that the sales would bring this publication a significant revenue that would make the exorbitant grant even less justified...