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Whenever the government increases financial aid, universities simply "cream off the extra money by raising tuition." Students aren't helped at all. That's the theory then-Secretary of Education Bill Bennett espoused in 1987. The regnant phrase was "Don't leave money sitting on the table." The metaphoric table in question was the one on which the government had laid out a sumptuous banquet of increases of financial aid... More
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Political discussion dominated some of the formal and many of the informal conversations at the conference, where Ron Paul won 71% of the vote in the straw poll.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will review a lawsuit against the affirmative action policies of the University of Texas at Austin.
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The boys in blue were on the lookout for terrorists in Muslim student associations at Yale, Columbia, Penn, and other area universities: According to an internal memo obtained by AP reporters—one of the NYPD’s “Weekly MSA Reports”—NYPD Cyber-Intelligence officers conducted a “daily routine” inspection of various MSA blogs and forums and recorded which students were advertising educational conferences, among other terrorism-related activities.
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Top administrators at Northwestern University convened a panel discussion earlier this month to address a recent incident of racial harassment on campus.
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As a freshman, turns out, not so good. As an upperclassman, however, he was pretty much a baller. Check out this year-by-year analysis of Lin's performance on court during his journey from obscure Harvard freshman to NBA superstar with the New York Knicks.