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...euphemistically, incentives, require two actors: the giver and the receiver. Lenders are at fault for offering such inappropriate gifts and incentives to university officials, but unscrupulous university officials bear just as much blame for accepting these gifts. As administrators of educational institutions that not only teach, but also care for their students, financial aid officials are acting in loco parentis. They should be giving the same unbiased financial advice that a parent would give to her child, particularly because many students have little experience with financial planning when they take out their first student loan.University officials have violated this fiduciary...
...more valid than others. For one student it might be at giving up health insurance, and for another it might be merely at the prospect of moving to Queens, or out of New York City altogether. Matthew W. Mahan ’05, in his second year in the Teach for America program in California, specifies: “To talk about college grads, looking for a first job out of school, I don’t think there should be an excuse for passing over teaching as an option,” he says, referring to those not supporting...
...this point, it seems to be being treated as a private health issue.” Residents have developed creative strategies to approach the infestation. On March 19, Minka Van Beuzekom of the Area 4 Neighborhood Coalition advocated introducing rodent education to the public schools, in programs that would teach children “the importance of keeping the city clean.” She threatened to bring the fruits of her “hobby”—rat-catching—to a meeting should the councillors prove intransigent...
...Teach for America often talks about the “achievement gap,” a term that describes the poor academic performance found in disadvantaged communities. In Boston, it was easy to see the achievement gap as a physical fissure, the distance from the Harvard T stop to the less pampered subway stations on the other end of the Red Line. Crossing that fissure cost about two dollars, and no matter how often I visited Dorchester, I remained a citizen of Harvard’s side...
Charles J. McNamara ’07 was a classics concentrator in Lowell House. He is a first-year Teach for America Corps Member in Helena, Arkansas...