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University President Lawrence H. Summers reaffirmed his support to Harvard’s scientists yesterday, saying that the ethical questions raised by Romney were not sufficient to merit new restrictions...
Phillips said some of the stories were extreme enough to merit investigation: one student, who had registered when he was eighteen, led efforts to increase voter registration at his high school, and even voted in previous elections, was told he had never registered when he applied for his absentee ballot...
...needy student who also has very high merit, there are other sources of aid in addition to the Pell Grant,” Hoxby said...
Pell Grants are not merit-based and are meant particularly for needy students attending less selective colleges, such as community colleges or four year public universities, said Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby...
...grant that it is likely, as President Summers alleges, that he made this hypothesis “in the spirit of academic inquiry,” intending to provoke a scholarly investigation into the causes behind the current gender disparity in math and science. But while there is scientific merit in exploring these possibilities as a thought experiment conducted in private or as a controlled scientific study, the remarks at Friday’s conference fit neither of these models, despite the exclusive character of the gathering. Summers may have been invited to speak as an economist, but he cannot...