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Public health is one of the areas in which Congress has promised to be most generous to children. The law provides that everyone under 19 and living below the poverty line is to be covered under Medicaid by the end of the century. Scholarship funding for the National Health Service Corps, which helps bring medical services to rural families, is to be revived. Child advocates cheered the results. "We've got off on the right track for the '90s," said Sara Rosenbaum of the Children's Defense Fund. But she cautioned, "The question is whether we're going to live...
Other private university leaders expressed deep misgivings about the tax rollback plan. "We're certainly tuition-driven," said Boston College Vice President Margaret A. Dwyer, who was fearful that the college could lose many potential students if the state shut off the scholarship...
...addition, the referendum would devastate state financial aid funds for students at public and private colleges alike. According to the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, 40 percent of state scholarship funds would be eliminated in a best case scenario. It is not inconceivable that the state would have to eliminate all scholarship funds...
...focus has already produced results--more than 1000 newly registered Massachusetts voters, a success rate that student leaders are attributing in large part to concern over CLT. According to Jane Felton, president of the school's Democratic club, Tufts would be particularly hard-hit by the cuts in state scholarship funds that the referendum will cause...
...credentials in virtually any of the rating categories. There is also some evidence to suggest that certain alumni parents' status may be weighed more heavily than others. For instance, the distinction made between alumni and "S&S" alumni suggests that legacies whose parent(s) participates on the Schools and Scholarship Committee are likely to get a bigger `tip' (more positive weight) in the admissions process than legacies whose parents are not as active with Harvard or Radcliffe...