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...public for placing electoral self-interest ahead of sound policies and a guiding hand, but clearly they do so with a certain comfort that any public backlash will be muted. Even the newly re-minted Warner-Lieberman bill, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2050, appears destined to fail...
...Both could not remember a single Co-oper in recent memory who had gone into investment banking or consulting, as 39 percent of this year’s graduating seniors entering into the workforce are doing...
...moves to increase spending came after Harvard failed to spend five percent of its endowment in nine of the last ten years, missing a threshold that tax-exempt institutions outside of higher education are legally required to meet and that University officials say is their target...
...That reaction hasn’t been unique to Harvard: when Yale announced plans in early January to increase endowment spending by nearly 40 percent, with an emphasis on financial aid, Yale President Richard C. Levin was even more direct about calling policymakers the catalyst...
...with any changes in the world of admissions and financial aid, the full effect of our new programs will not be known for a number of years, but preliminary results for the Class of 2012 indicate impressive academic excellence and increasing economic diversity. At this time last year, 49 percent of the incoming class qualified for financial aid, while this year the comparable figure is 59 percent. Of course, many other colleges have also made significant changes in their financial aid programs, and future competition in this realm will continue to be fierce...