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...said. “It was good practice for everybody. It just worked out for me to get a high mark with the short approach.” Newcomer Stacey Jung placed eighth in the pole vault with her 3.05-meter clearance, while sophomore Paige Martin and freshman Christine Reed finished back-to-back at 14 and 15 with clearances of 2.90 and 2.75 meters, respectively.Bounding 5.66 meters in the long jump, senior Brittan Smith was the top collegian in the finals, finishing second behind unattached Tahari James, while classmate Elissa Reidy finished in the 12th spot with...
While Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats mull an auto-industry bailout plan, it's worth recalling a pair of Republican legislators from the past. One of the most derided pieces of 20th century economic policy was introduced by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Willis C. Hawley of Oregon. Signed into law on June 17, 1930, the notorious Smoot-Hawley Act jacked up U.S. tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods, sparking a global trade war that deepened the Great Depression at home and spread it abroad...
...have enough resources to serve all the students who want in. "It's not fair to students to admit them to a university and not be able to offer classes, sections and student services that they need and academic advising and help that students deserve," says CSU chancellor Charles Reed. Cal State tried to cope with the economic downturn in the early 1990s by increasing overall class size, but many students could not enroll in the courses they needed and ultimately dropped out. The school is trying to avoid a repeat of those mistakes...
...communities, have limited knowledge about how and when to apply for financial aid, and tmake up their minds about college later in the school year. "Those are the students that America needs to reach out to, because they are going to be the workforce of the 21st century," says Reed. "And they will probably be the group that will be the most at risk" of getting squeezed out by an enrollment cap. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...being a meritocracy. Tales of 21st century self-made men (and women)—of J.K. Rowling writing the first chapter of Harry Potter on the back of a café napkin when she was a single mother on welfare, or of Steve Jobs dropping out of Reed College because he couldn’t pay tuition—are no less popular now than they were during Horatio Alger’s day. In a 2007 article titled “Rags to Riches Billionaires,” Forbes reported that “almost two-thirds...