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...Poorer families, on the other hand, see a reduction of their financial aid based on how much they save...
...more international students will undoubtedly bring certain benefits, it is also important that the admissions office do a better job of getting applications from international students of more socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. The prospect of applying to an expensive, far-away U.S. university just seems too out-of-reach for poorer international students, thus the College tends to attract many well-off students from abroad, but proportionally fewer from disadvantaged backgrounds. The College should tout its excellent financial aid program and step up international recruiting to get a more socioeconomically diverse group of students from overseas, not throw more undergraduates...
Obviously, there’s a middle ground in this debate that we can all hew to—a commitment to a perspective from which we can delight in artworks both popular and obscure. The world would be poorer without Bruce Conner and James Benning and Hollis Frampton, but it would also be poorer without Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott and Monty Python. Those who snub one camp for the other are depriving themselves of a lot of worthy and compelling work...
...member leaked to me shortly before spring break. Since being on the receiving end of a shakedown is undoubtedly the more unpleasant experience demanding survival skills, I will give seniors some ammunition of their own. The following advice can help the hopelessly-solicited make it through the hectoring no poorer than they started...
...Cambridge neighborhood. Poets including e.e. cummings ’15, T.S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg were once frequent visitors. And so, when Grolier closes its doors for the last time, when the last slim volume passes over the counter, the entire city will be poorer...