Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks later, Wisconsin-LaCrosse wrestler Joe LaRosa died under similar circumstances while attempting to make a lower weight class for an upcoming meet. The results were typical, if extreme: a wrestler cutting weight can experience any combination of kidney failure, heat stroke, or heart attack through rapid weight loss incurred by dehydration...
When this back-up wrestler was told that he would be able to start at a lower weight class, Reese engaged in a regimen for serious weight-loss. Long after his teammates had stopped practicing and gone to dinner, Reese stayed behind to shave those final fatal pounds under the supervision of Assistant Coach Joe McFarland. Ninety minutes before his death, Reese asked McFarland if he could delay his weigh-in until the next morning. McFarland responded that Reese would not be eligible for the upcoming meet unless he made weight that night...
With a new financial aid policy that will offer over $4000 more to some lower and middle-class applicants, Princeton University last month broke from Ivy League convention in a bold move to diversify its campus...
...main objective was to make Princeton more financial-aid friendly for lower- or middle-income students," Betterton says. "We wanted to counteract sticker shock... so that we can say we truly meet all demonstrated need...
Princeton spokesperson Justin Harmon told theChronicle of Higher Education thatPrinceton meant to say to lower-or middle-incomestudents "If you're thinking about going to astate university, think again...