“...real commitment to try to identify a response to an enormous stress a particular group of families feels about the cost of higher education”

HA! Talk about posh affirmative action huh?...wha­t a great thing to offer families making up to $180,000 almost half off the cost of a Harvard education. Poor darlings! I mean god forbid these families that must be so financially unstable send their kids to a good state school instead...­that would be ridiculous. All this and we can't figure out a way to provide decent public schooling for ALL American kids to go to college, shame on us.
All this talk about our "national security" and nobody has acknowledged that it is a national security issue to educate the children who will go on to maintain America's military and economic might?

12/11/07
12:36pm
Alexandria, VA

Where do I apply?! I go free?!!
Universities need a few old folks in the classes just so they have some students who can speak from experience (I'm 57.)
Also, I finally want my degree in psychology.

Harvard is a great university and I applaud them for this action. However, success in life comes down to hard work and perseverance, not where you attended college.


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Hi Folks--

Methinks thou dost protest too much about Harvard, shakespeak. But cheer up. There are some really great community colleges in America that you should look into.

IMHO, another significant contribution Harvard has recently made to expanding access is its decision to discontinue early admissions. Two immediate effects are that it has helped to level the playing field in who has access to the best financial aid deals, and it means that seniors are no longer hustling around Halloween to get their applications finished.

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"If people have their abilities to determine thier own existences ruined then they cannot represent themselves"

That's what I meant

"If people have their abilities to determine thier own existences [manipulated] then they cannot represent themselves and we do not in effect have democracy. Havard stands for not allowing to people to know dick about themselves­."

Harvard and other universities like it don't teach science or philosophy correctly and this brainwashing limits people's ability to understand the world they live on and themselves as part of that world. With friends like Harvard, one needs no enemies.

Plus, the monetary thing is annoying. Why pay for lies and half truths? Honestly. Fuck all that.

"In general, tuition to all colleges should be affordable to all students who wish to attend. This is the meaning of democracy.­"

That's not the meaning of democracy at all. Democracy means that people represent themselves and are not representations of something else.

If people don't know anything about science and cannot in anyway determine their own existence, then they are not able to represent themselves and we therefore don't have democracy.

Harvard is bullshit. It ruins people's ability to know who they are. By not giving them the tools of physics to understand the world people cannot adequately represent themselves. When truth is distorted and manipulated by jerks, like those at Harvard, we become a republic, and that means someone is the King or dictator.

I nominate the person as King who decides that he or she will manipulate reality so that children grow up not learning how to represent themselves, because it sure as hell isn't what I stand for. Apparently a totalitarian society is what Harvard stands for and if that's so then it's useless to have around and a detriment to all who pass through its doors.

Once again, a physical existence is determined by someone's physical reality over time and space. If people have their abilities to determine thier own existence then they cannot represent themselves and we do not in effect have democracy. Havard stands for not allowing to people to know dick about themselves.

They would have people live a disgusting filthy existence as empty husks of human beings and that's wrong.

Or I mean that YES, Veritas is false advertising. Yeesh

After WWII, Universities began to admit masses of students primarily because of the GI Bill: returning GI's attended in droves. Not that this didn't cause consternation in some: A Princeton Professor became alarmed and decried what he called "the mongrelization of America."

Now with tuition costs going through the roof, only the rich will be able to attend major universities - never mind Ivy League schools.

If Harvard will pay the tuition of some students whose parents make under $60,000, this is excellent. In general, tuition to all colleges should be affordable to all students who wish to attend. This is the meaning of democracy.

I know how private equity could relieve Harvard of its portfolio. However, this is not a question of getting a stock portfolio it's a question of whether "Veritas" is false advertising or not. I would say not, obviously.

Harvard and The Titanic - discuss.

Of course, as a friendly person, I should say that it's not fair to Harvard that it should be on such a pedestal. It's a prison of its own propaganda and only a suicidal fool would want to live like that.

Hogwarts indeed. It's bringing everything else down with it.

Gee, I hope this won't hurt their portfolio too much.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/12/22/harvard_portfolio_managers_pay_drops/

I would also say that you can tell that what I say is true because you don't get reaction out of people about the college of William and Mary.

Harvard, and other universities of its ilks' low class republican and propagandistic ways have made fools of the children who want to attend them and are a detriment to American education as a whole.

Look at what happens to children who want to go to Harvard. What fools they become. These universities are frauds and they rip people off with their sharpdealings. They're medically unsound to attend because of the braindamage they cause their students with propaganda.

They're not even democratic institutions as they tout themselves to be. Instead of imitating the Truth, they would have other universities imitate themselves, as if they're a king of all schools or something. Idiots!