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Things will get back to normal next year when Chanukah and Christmas overlap...
...more academic fields overlap and more activities emerge that require cooperation among the faculties, that function becomes more and more important for the University...
...schools protested that they had done nothing wrong. Last week, however, the Ivies -- but not M.I.T. -- signed a consent agreement ending their arrangement. They also canceled an annual "overlap meeting," at which they discussed financial aid for students who had been accepted by two or more schools in the group. Whatever its effect on future aid offers, last week's action was unlikely to hold down private-college tuition bills, which increased by an average of about 10% each year during the 1980s...
Some university officials say that the end of overlap will mean a net decrease information made available about students' financial needs. Assuming that colleges set a fixed amount for total financial aid, too much financial aid for some students will mean not enough for others...
College administrators are carefully monitoring the situation, and any such drastic change will probably prompt an appeal to Congress to pass legislation permitting them to renew the overlap process...