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Despite all the new programs, Amy Ringer, a Chelsea senior, criticizes B.U.'s focus on early learning programs over changes at the higher education levels. "They should be making improvements at both ends so that we can meet in the middle," Ringer says...
...Ringer says that while she would encourage similar models of reform for other struggling school systems, there is a lack of any real means for students to voice their complaints and suggestions. "There is no one [from B.U.] in the school to talk to who has real power," she says...
...People shy away from Chelsea like there's something wrong with this place," Ringer says. "Actually, the teachers encourage a warm, friendly, multicultural atmosphere. It's not like the newspaper says. People should come check...
While many students such as Ringer and Stec support B.U.'s presence, university officials and Chelsea community leaders disagree over the final outcome of the 10-year project...
...many Republicans think Dukakis finished himself with that answer, but more than a few Democrats thought so as well. Bernard Shaw has told me often that, for months following the debate, a number of Democratic activists were livid with him, and that some accused him of being a Republican ringer in the debate...