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Naomi T. Ewing, director of college counseling at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, located in Chicago??s north suburbs, noticed that low income students aren’t quick to latch onto Harvard’s promise of affordability...
...felt across higher education, with Yale quickly following suit with a similar financial program. Stanford also expanded its aid program to make tuition free for families making less than $100,000 and other elite universities—including those in the Ivy League, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago??quickly followed suit...
Chicago has always stood at the apex of this tradition. It is no coincidence that the sentiment of William T. Stead— who lambasted the culture of corruption in the industrial city in a book entitled, “If Christ Came to Chicago??—seems appropriate even today...
...course, Stead surely didn’t mean that Christ would have been disappointed with Chicago??s corrupt politicians: Who could really fault a city so embedded in its state’s political tradition? Leaders of Chicago??s infamous political dynasty, the Daley family, were daringly complicit in the cronyism and gangsterism led by Al Capone in the early 1900s; Mayor Richard J. Daley notably capitalized on the New Deal and segregated the city on racial lines solely in order to promote his own self-interest...
...When President-Elect Obama spoke at Chicago??s Grant Park, he asked all Americans to “join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years—block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.” If you walk down Western Ave in Allston, past some of Harvard’s vacant or under-utilized buildings, it is clear that Harvard owns a lot of property that needs some “block by block” rebuilding...