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...will those with fewer advantages be helped by the new policy? It didn't happen at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In 2002, one year after UNC banned early admissions, the number of fee waivers - which represent the number of students with limited means (a family of four needs to make less than $35,798 to qualify) - actually decreased...
...UNC went even further, introducing the Carolina Covenant in Oct. 2003, a provision allowing students from low-income families to graduate from the university without any debt. Many of the Ivy League schools also have similar programs. That caused fee waiver applications to increase 38.9% from 2004 to 2006. "I believe strongly that early admissions doesn't have an effect on low-income students here," Stephen Farmer, the assistant provost and director of undergraduate admissions at UNC, told TIME. "In the end you still have to have need-based financial...
...banning early admissions help placate such a growing divide? From UNC's experience, the answer...
...York Times was criticized for reporting that players were out at a bar while other students held vigils for victims of sexual violence. It so happens that last week coincided with Take Back the Night (TBTN), a time to raise awareness about sexual and domestic violence, at Duke and UNC. Others have labeled the vigils and protests as melodramatic. Take Back the Night’s goal is to unite, to educate, and to heal. Obviously, the lacrosse players, and others as well, have a long way to go. When we say and do nothing, we show survivors?...
...best friend from high school goes to UNC, and last year she called me from a noisy and celebratory Franklin Street, where throngs of students in powder blue had gathered in the wake of the Tar Heels’ fifth national championship. When she saw Roy Williams out running around campus, she rolled down her window and screamed at him, and Ol’ Roy fired back with a smile and a thumbs...