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...game is getting even more complicated. "Each college kind of has its own stance on the degree to which it's willing to have those conversations" about financial aid, says Amy Grieger, college counselor at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prestigious Massachusetts prep school. What troubles Grieger as well as many college admissions officers is that the latest wave of merit-based scholarships is undermining efforts to promote economic and racial diversity, because it handicaps the lower-income kids, who might not be first in their class. "As a system, we're not serving those students very well," she admits...
...game is getting even more complicated. "Each college kind of has its own stance on the degree to which it's willing to have those conversations" about financial aid, says Amy Grieger, college counselor at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prestigious Massachusetts prep school. What troubles Grieger as well as many college admissions officers is that the latest wave of merit-based scholarships is undermining efforts to promote economic and racial diversity, because it handicaps the lower-income kids, who might not be first in their class. "As a system, we're not serving those students very well," she admits...
...after seven years of service in the British Royal Air Force, Paul Bernard Grieger decided to visit his parents in Poland for Christmas. It turned out to be a long visit. Two weeks ago Grieger slipped into West Berlin with a hair-raising story of his escape, and a grim account of life in the new Poland...
...When Grieger tried to leave Poland he was arrested, spent three months in the Jauer prison in Lower Silesia, another three in a Breslau jail. The Jauer prison, although jammed with 350 people, looked from the outside like an ordinary house. The prison wardens specialized in subtle forms of torture. All night long guards walked in & out of the cells, switching lights on & off to keep prisoners awake. When prisoners went to bed they had to pile their clothes in the middle of the room. Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed...
...Grieger was finally released from jail, but got into trouble again. In a Warsaw cafe one day, he stopped to talk to a British visitor who was sitting at a table with three pretty Polish girls and a Communist functionary. When the Briton proposed a toast to "these nice girls here" and the King of England, the Communist shouted: "We won't drink to the - King. It will be to Stalin." Says ex-R.A.F.-man Grieger: "I don't know what happened, but I slugged him." Before he could be arrested, Grieger ran. At the border...