Word: spend
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Currently, the council budget is about $120,000 per year. With that money, we fund well over 100 student groups with average grants of approximately $300. In addition, we spend about $30,000 per year on Springfest, Yale-game events, holiday shuttles to the airport and the first-year Formal. Increasing the council's budget could provide $100,000 more for student groups while simultaneously adding about $20,000 to the other activities (the great majority of which would go to improving Springfest...
...doesn't simply mean you will pay more to the council for better student group funding and services. The University is contributing to this money through financial aid, since the term bill is covered as part of tuition in financial aid packages. This means that the University will spend $63,000 more through financial aid for this effort, effectively increasing its commitment to student life at the same time that the student body does. A term bill increase is about more than students being willing to show their support; it is about the University doing its share for students...
What happened between then and now to cause this transformation? Surely the emphasis our education places on achieving mastery of the unknown has something to do with it. In class we spend endless hours experimenting, developing models of analysis and working out complex equations, all in an effort to conquer the mysterious. In striving to catalog Shakespeare's sonnets, however, we soon forget to be stirred by them. I do not mean to suggest that we ought to cease our attempts at mastering the unknown, but I worry that our constant efforts to analyze and footnote may leave us numb...
Schools need money. Students have plenty of it to spend: $72 billion for all kids through high school, according to the most recent figures from Consumers Union. Those twin economic pressures have led to a disturbing trend on school grounds. In the past nine months, public school exclusivity deals with cola companies have soared 300%, to a record 150. And that's just the most obvious signal that schools are open for business. Calvin Klein models pout on the covers of textbooks; homecoming may be sponsored by Dr Pepper; Taco Bell dishes up burritos at a school cafeteria near...
...children under 15 (who are at the greatest risk of developing Lyme disease) and won't allow you to relax your guard in the garden or the woods, since ticks carry other diseases as well. But for folks who live in a heavily infested area, particularly if they spend a lot of time landscaping or clearing brush, the shots may be worth...