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...based financial aid or athletic scholarship programs should consider scaling these initiatives back in favor of need-based solutions, which would enhance accessibility. At public universities, only 44 percent of financial aid money goes to need-based programs; it is imperative that this share increase during a recession in order to make continued college attendance possible for families hit by the downturn. In addition to refocusing their financial aid programs on accessibility and affordability, colleges and universities should also examine methods of reducing the cost of tuition. Creative methods of reducing overall expenditures at an institutional level should be embraced...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Tightening Our Belts | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...Mechanical counters cannot get tired, cannot get cranky, cannot forget!" Evidently, the lever technology needed such aggressive commercials - fifteen states that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929, calling them too complicated, too expensive and too difficult to keep in working order. In the early 1960s, University of California at Berkley professor Joseph Harris suggested applying to ballots the punch-card method used by early computers - setting the stage for the hanging chad controversy of the 2000 elections. The '60s also saw the introduction of the optical-scan ballot, which borrowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballots in America | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...should I vote? Some argue that I should vote to change the result of the election. But the chance of a presidential election coming down to one vote is on the order of one in ten million (and imagine the scandal and litigation if it actually happened...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: None of the Above | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

Tribolet said that ABC News will take the raw data from the site as a news tip and will then investigate further in order to confirm the information before it is reported...

Author: By Emma R. Carron, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Voters Evaluate Polling Stations | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...After McCain named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, some pundits predicted that some disaffected Clinton supporters would vote Republican in order to see a woman in the White House. But Clinton supporters on campus said they did not see the two female candidates as comparable...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Arianna Markel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Formerly for Clinton Flock to Obama | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

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