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James and Keel have survived the game of finance: James is wealthy enough to bypass financial aid altogether; Keel is poor enough to get a free ride. Students caught in the middle class, however, often lose out. As Miranda I. Lash ’03 explains, “Financial aid covers those who are extremely poor. And people who are rich obviously don’t need any money. But there is a point in the middle class where you can almost make it to pay, but you can’t pay as much as they expect...
...Lash wonders how closely Harvard’s policy accounts for these “unusual circumstances.” Her mother, who works at a medical clinic primarily serving Hispanic Medicare patients, must single-handedly support Miranda, her two siblings, her grandmother and her aunt. “My family has struggled to meet the tuition payments since the beginning. My mom has taken out massive loans on her credit cards. She’s considered selling our house and moving to an apartment, just so it will be easier to pay for me and my younger sister...
...case of Lash, the school requires financial information regarding her non-custodial father. “Getting the tax forms from my dad has been a real problem, since my parents are divorced. But I cannot get any award without my dad’s paperwork, regardless of the fact that he doesn’t contribute anything to my tuition. The financial aid office takes no account for the fact that some parents just will not or cannot contribute...
...felt it might be disrespectful to the victims and their families and we felt if we made ourselves visible in that way people would lash out at us because we’re Arab and the people who committed the attack are Arab,” Hamad says. Of all the ripple effects the U.S.’s day of terror has had at Harvard, one of the most visible has probably been the more public profile SAS and the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) have been forced to assume...
...It’s OK to be scared, it’s even OK to be angry, but it’s not OK to lash out violently as a result of those emotions, it’s not OK to target groups of people, it’s not OK to accept ‘collateral damage’ of the lives of innocent people for a retaliation against terrorism,” he said...