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...Shorb, Skidmore College's fast-talking director of student aid and family finance, did more reading than usual this year. And not just because the 4,000 financial-aid applications that landed on his desk made up a record 62% of the applicant pool. Shorb, who has worked in financial aid for 30 years and is halfway through putting his three daughters through college, had also never seen so many personal appeals folded into the files. Setting aside his computer algorithms and thick-buttoned relic of a calculator, he absorbed every typewritten page. One family expected a 50% income drop...
Financial Uncertainty In most years, the system would leave Skidmore and colleges like it with a pretty good idea of what to expect come May 1, when deposits are due. This time, though, money troubles are continually changing the outlook. In previous cycles, Shorb estimates, he could base 95% of the aid awards on the prior year's tax returns. But this time Shorb is also trying to project many applicant families' income for 2009, which, given the volatility of the economy, is anyone's guess. He's leaving his calendar open every day in April to deal with further...
...vice president for advancement, estimates that because 80% of the school's funding comes from tuition, any single student's absence could punch a $25,000 to $30,000 hole in the operating budget. And it's possible that the sophomore, junior and senior classes could shrink as well. Shorb has already received about 60 new financial-assistance requests from currently enrolled students, five times as many as in a typical year...
THOSE OREGON GIRLS Oregon's Powers High School last month stripped Leslie Shorb, 18, of her valedictorian title for sneaking into the boys' locker room and showering with five lads. Looks as if she may be headed for big things...
...Eugene, shoplifted a Kiss T shirt at 12 and landed in reform school. Tonya Harding, troublesome Olympic ice skater who hails from Milwaukie, a Portland suburb, got into a scuffle at age 15 with her half brother, 26, hitting him with a curling iron and a hockey stick. Meanwhile, Shorb has already appeared on Good Morning America and hired Harding's former agent...