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...protesting heroine who then melts in his arms; or Stanley rape his sister-in-law Blanche du Bois while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to a child in A Streetcar Named Desire. Higher up the cultural food chain, young people can read of date rape in Homer or Jane Austen, watch it in Don Giovanni or Rigoletto...
Martha H. Homer, associate director of financial aid for student employment, blamed the recession, which made it more difficult for students to find summer employment on their own, for an increase in the number of work-study applicants...
...Homer said that with a fixed number of summer grants, the financial aid office was unable to meet the increased demand for work-study money. She said that in most years the office accommodates all summer work-study applicants who receive financial aid during the school year...
...Supply and demand usually work out well," Homer said, "but not this year...
...Homer also said that the shortage occurred despite efforts to increase the number of grants this year. She said the financial aid office "anticipated that there would be a greater demand, so they reduced the amount of the grant so they could give more...