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...receive college degrees. “Selective schools are expensive, community colleges are not,” said Dr. Peter Mackey, the foundation’s director of public affairs. “If you are a superb low income student and you don’t get a scholarship right out of high school, what else are you going to do?” Joshua Wyner, Vice President of Programs at the foundation, said these figures are proof that university admissions should look not only to high schools but also community colleges to recruit low-income students...
...have a good chance of breaking the top three, and if we could come ahead of any of them it would be really great as we are not a scholarship school,” Jakus said...
...this speculation is spurring a new burst of scholarship about locations all over the Americas. The Topper site in South Carolina, Cactus Hill in Virginia, Pennsylvania's Meadowcroft, the Taima-Taima waterhole in Venezuela and several rock shelters in Brazil all seem to be pre-Clovis. Dillehay has found several sites in Peru that date to between 10,000 and 11,000 years B.P. but have no apparent links to the Clovis culture. "They show a great deal of diversity," he says, "suggesting different early sources of cultural development in the highlands and along the coast...
...plain his enemies were out for blood. And at this point, let’s lose the goose metaphor. This was an academic 9/11, this was an act of spiritual assassination, an assault on free speech, intellectual inquiry, and ideology-free academic standards aimed at the heart of American scholarship. We are Manhattan now; and we cannot rest from this mental fight. If we shirk it, then William F. Buckley, Jr., is right that it’s better to be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard...
University President Lawrence H. Summers stressed the importance of academic discourse and scholarship over direct University aid in the cause of disaster relief at a symposium on natural and unnatural disasters yesterday. The “In Harm’s Way” symposium, sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, featured four panel discussion groups, which considered topics ranging from social vulnerability patterns to the pending threat of avian bird flu. Summers, a featured speaker at the symposium, said that Harvard’s focus should not be on providing direct financial and logistical assistance...