Word: oberlin
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Katharine Hanson, executive director of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education in Cambridge, Mass., calls the proposed reduction in student aid "disastrous." She estimates that 60% of all students receiving federal funds would be affected. At Oberlin College, for example, half of the 2,700 students have guaranteed loans. According to James White, director of financial aid at Oberlin, half of those would be ineligible for borrowing under the new guidelines. As a result of the reductions, says Ernest Smith, director of financial assistance at the University of Miami, "students might start adhering to the 'shop-down' theory, where they...
...There's great experimental value in terms of the composition of cable companies in the country," says Susan Fleischmann, adding that only Davis, Calif. and Oberlin, Ohio, currently have cable franchises that are cooperatives. "It's a real risk, but one that Cambridge should take...
Wesleyan University president Conn G. Campbell drafted the letter. Other signatories include the presidents of Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Rutgers and Yale Universities and of Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Dartmouth, Haverford, Oberlin, Smith, Swarthmore and Williams colleges...
...Oberlin College in Ohio has a relatively substantial cooperative housing system in which the actual buildings are owned by the college but the maintenance is run by an independent student group. According to housing and dining coordinator Anne Ludlow, about 150 students live in the co-ops and pay about one-third of the board which students in regular dorms are charged. In return the students spend four hours a week doing housework in the co-ops as well as ordering and preparing food. Ludlow attributes the popularity of Oberlin's co-ops--which are about 30 years...
Writer Skow (Oberlin '53) was not rejected by Harvard or Yale. He never applied...