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Bowman and Hysen’s campaign focused on pressing the administration to make budget cuts more transparent and finding immediate, low-cost ways to improve student life at Harvard, such as putting many student services online...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BREAKING NEWS: Validity of Voting Process Questioned in UC Presidential Election | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Student enrollment in the ISP also showed socioeconomic imbalance—only 27 percent of students from low income families elect to participate in the program...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Schools with skewed socioeconomic distribution are also seeing high student-transfer rates. Schools in wealthier areas of Cambridge are experiencing stable or increasing enrollment, while schools in poorer neighborhoods experience high rates of attrition. For instance, Baldwin and Graham & Parks had twice as many students enrolling than leaving; Amigos, however, had four times as many students leaving than enrolling...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Nidal Malik Hasan struck some of his classmates as a "ticking time bomb" whose strange personality telegraphed trouble long before he allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood. While Hasan usually displayed a quiet and lonely demeanor that "made me feel sorry for him," says a fellow student who is enrolled for an advanced degree at the Pentagon's medical school, such sympathy was tempered by the alleged killer's repeated assertions in class that Muslims were being persecuted by the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Hood: Were Hasan's Warning Signs Ignored? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...where he was enrolled from 2007 to 2008. Unlike most of the 50 people enrolled, Hasan went straight into the program from his residency at Walter Reed, the Army's flagship hospital. That meant he had spent nearly a decade - medical school, residency and the fellowship - largely as a student before heading to the Texas Army post in July. "The American taxpayer gave this guy advanced degrees, and the bastard murdered 13 people," says the first classmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Hood: Were Hasan's Warning Signs Ignored? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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