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...wide-ranging financial aid initiative unveiled yesterday, Harvard said it will significantly reduce the expected contributions from middle- and upper-class families and eliminate loans for all undergraduates. Students whose families make between $120,000 and $180,000 per year will now pay only 10 percent of their yearly income to the College, cutting costs to those families by between one-third and one-half, according to a University statement. Undergraduates whose families make between $60,000 and $120,000 per year will contribute between zero and 10 percent of their income on a graded scale under the new initiative...
...this September, he didn’t expect the sharp difference in prices. “There was definitely a [price] sticker shock,” he said. “I was not totally prepared.” In the past year, the dollar has fallen by 5 percent against the pound and 10 percent against the euro, hitting record lows. At press time, one euro was worth 1.46 dollars, according to the Bloomberg currency exchange. Students abroad this term made their decision to leave last March, when the outlook wasn’t quite so bleak. Christina...
...campaign staff—not including her chronically absent running mate Leo P. Zimmermann ’09—were also present to congratulate their opponents. The two tickets had previously agreed to combine their celebrations. Martel expressed candid disappointment that her ticket captured less than 8 percent of the electorate, taking a third place finish. “It was awful—172 votes,” she said. However, Martel said later on that she “had fun” and was grateful for the experience. “Although there are still things...
...Indian government is faced with a number of ways to quench the creeping threat of thirst. The country’s deficient plumbing system, the source of many of its problems, demands a massive overhaul, but the employment of simple techniques to capture rain over just one to two percent of the land would provide as many as 100 liters of water per person a day—much more than the 2.5 liters needed. Groundwater wells contaminated with bacteria from raw sewage, pesticides, and iron could be also be purified using more advanced technology. But these measures won?...
...Randall S. Sarafa ’09 will be taking the reins of the Undergraduate Council in the coming year, winning a race that featured the lowest voter turnout since the council began popularly electing its top officials in 1996.The total number of ballots cast dipped nearly 40 percent from last year to 2,181, with the winning ticket garnering 66 percent of the first-place votes. The low voter turnout may have been due in part to the established reputations of Sundquist, currently the council’s vice president, and Sarafa, its Finance Committee chair. The two were...