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...yesterday's article on Brown University's recent decision to increase undergraduate financial aid, The Crimson should have reported that, before the aid hike, a Brown student whose parents make less than $30,000 a year, on average, owed $23,000 in loans before the aid hike. The article also should have noted that the $5 million increase would be phased in over four years...
...percent tuition hike--Brown's lowest in 30 years--will accompany the scholarship fund increase, raising the full tuition costs to $24,624 starting with the class...
Students whose parents make less than $30,000 a year will incur 70 percent less debt over four years. These students will graduate owing only $7,000 in loans, versus $28,000 before the aid hike, according to a press release...
...deeper issue, of course, is what the forests are for. A resource for timber and mining companies? A wilderness where people can hunt, fish or hike? Or an ecosystem supporting the web of life? Dombeck hopes a plan being developed by a committee of scientists will offer a model of multipurpose, sustainable forest management. But pushing that plan through Congress and finding a way to finance it may be jobs so big that even Paul Bunyan couldn't pull them...
...York-based Homes for the Homeless, "and they got fed up." But how fed up? In a recent survey conducted by researchers at Wayne State University, 80% of respondents said they favored increased federal spending on the homeless, and two-thirds said they would agree to a $25 tax hike to pay for homeless programs...