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...vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter talk, and a pitch to granddad for prep school tuition money made by a politic young man, to name...
...tuition increases have far outdistanced inflation, and undergraduates are paying $5400 or 50 percent more this year than they did when the bull market began...
...relieving the endowment, the pay out limit has placed an unfair burden on students. In 1974 the endowment funded 22 percent of Harvard's expenses, while it only picked up 17.5 percent in 1986. When the endowment pays a smaller share of the budget, tuition has to make up the difference. In 1974 tuition paid for 21 percent of the University's expences and last year it paid 27 percent...
...when it comes down to paying thousand dollar tuition increases each year and bearing a greater burden of the budget, these thoughts offer little comfort. If the market drops even further, then maybe Harvard's endowment will get the sinking feeling we have each and every year when we open the mail to find the biggest term bill ever...
Many UC members seem to have forgotten that student tuition pays Bok's salary and that student representatives have every right to the administration's respect. They also seem to forget the successes of their counterparts at other schools. At George Washington University, for example, the student government recently extracted a guarantee that tuition would not increase more than 10 percent each year...