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Amongst the nation’s top tier of women’s hockey programs, Harvard, receives significantly lower game attendance than No. 1 Minnesota, No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth and No. 3 Dartmouth...
...schools feel less pressure to house students like sheiks. "Upper-tier schools don't have to work as hard," says consultant Hier. "If you're Harvard, you're never going to have to worry. I went to my 20year reunion at Brown, and nothing had changed but the paint." Even so, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania are among the Ivies spending millions to spiff up their dorms. Stanford University is in the middle of a $300 million housing renovation. Still, says Rodger Whitney, executive director of Stanford's student housing, "We're not going in the direction...
Schools that do provide them are, some say, creating a two-tier system--kids who can afford the extra luxury touches and those who can't. Even without a course in class differences, the students get it. Charity Jeffery, 21, says she ended up moving away from some friends when she settled into Seattle Pacific University's $14.4 million, ski-lodge-style Emerson Hall. "Emerson, right away, was referred to as the rich-kid dorm," she says. "I had to separate from friends who went to another dorm because they couldn't all afford to live in Emerson." Some schools...
...tier plans offer generic and brand name drugs for one retail price and a different mail order co-payment price. Two-tier plans offer generic and brand name drugs for the same retail and mail order co-payment price...
...plan that moved from a one-tier formulary to a three-tier formulary, you saw a small to medium amount of savings in total spending on drugs, you saw a significant reduction in the spending by the plan and you saw a very large increase in spending by consumers. There was a very substantial shift in who bears the cost burden,” Frank said...