Wow! You only make $7/hour out here.
Elite shit must not stink, and it must be a higher quality of shit, huh?
"The Harvard disadvantage; Despite outreach, the needy face socioeconomic gulf" by Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | May 12, 2009
CAMBRIDGE - It can be difficult to discern the neediest students. There's no support group or club for them - many students prefer not to reveal their socioeconomic standing....
The system is private and dignified....
Translation: Poor is EMBARRASSING, so shhhhhh!
"The stakes are high here," William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid who himself was a scholarship student at Harvard, said in an interview. "If we aren't educating the full range of the population, we won't be educating effective future leaders of the country."
That's not really a surprise anymore.
Harvard is nothing more than a globalist indoctrination factory and training program.
Fitzsimmons, a 1967 Harvard graduate, experienced the initial alienation that some disadvantaged students feel. His parents, who never attended college, ran a convenience store and gas station in Weymouth. Two of his teachers refused to write him a recommendation, telling him, "Harvard is for a bunch of rich snobs. If you go there, you won't fit in."
"The place overwhelmed me with its affluence," Fitzsimmons said. "I certainly felt like I was a kind of a stranger, visiting, for quite some time. This is a much more hospitable place than when I first arrived."
Much of Harvard has changed. Even its exclusive final clubs - once a bastion of privilege - have opened up to students from modest backgrounds. While membership costs thousands of dollars a year, many now let sought-after recruits know that financial aid is available.
Still, a sense of isolation strikes some undergraduates in the most mundane moments. While wealthy housemates bemoan the walk to drop off their dirty clothes at a laundry service, students like Miguel Garcia wait hours for the washer and dryer in the dorm basement. Everyone, it seems, has traveled to Paris and summered on the Vineyard. For Garcia, summer isn't a verb; growing up, it was a time for menial work.
Garcia, the first boy in his family to graduate from high school, is grateful to have made it to the Ivy League. Intellectually, the 19-year-old history and literature major feels at home.
Bad choice, kid.
But the pressure to fit in got to him soon after moving into the suite he shared with three other freshmen. As rich housemates talked of jetting to Las Vegas for the weekend, he privately worried about helping his parents cover their car loan, utilities, and other expenses.
He's a good boy!
Many days, he just wanted to be alone. He requested a new living arrangement, and weeks after arriving on campus, he moved into a single. It's where he meditates and writes in a journal to sort out his feelings. "You can't take a kid who's lived in the ghetto for 18 years and just make them feel OK now," Garcia said. "But other people say, 'Why are you complaining? You're at Harvard. You have a full ride. And when you graduate, you'll be just like us.' "
Instead of pretending everyone is equal, he said, the university should encourage more candid conversations about the sensitive topic of wealth and poverty....
Yeah, right -- when a snowball makes it through hell.
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And look who is being imported to scrub toilets next semester -- at a lower rate, of course:
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust yesterday backed federal legislation that would clear the way for illegal immigrant students to apply for legal residency, an endorsement that stunned students and drew criticism for a president who has largely steered clear of fierce debates.
It's called AMNESTY! Laws are only for you to follow, American citizen.
In a letter this week to federal lawmakers, Faust expressed "strong support" for legislation known as the Dream Act, which would allow students who have been in this country since they were 15 to apply for legal residency under certain conditions. She acknowledged that students with "immigration status issues" attend Harvard, and said the bill would be a "lifeline" to such students.
So ILLEGALS ATTEND HARVARD, huh?
And HOW MANY WELL-DESERVING AMERICAN KIDS were DISPLACED?
Btw, folks, I AM FOR FREE EDUCATION and HEALTH CARE so you can drop the racist thought if that's what you were thinking about me; however, that does not preclude being for the RULE of LAW and OPPOSING the GLOBALIST AGENDA that the illegal issue serves to advance.
"I believe it is in our best interest to educate all students to their full potential - it vastly improves their lives and grows our communities and economy," she wrote in a letter to Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry and Representative Michael E. Capuano, thanking them for their support for the legislation. "This bill will help move us closer to this goal."
This as my state guts its public schools so it can give taxpayer money to corporations and themselves.
Faust, who declined to be interviewed, is not the first leader to endorse the Dream Act. But her action adds a powerful new voice to the debate over a bill that has languished in Congress since 2001. The Dream Act often surfaces in the debate in individual states over whether illegal immigrant students should pay resident tuition at public colleges and universities.
Well, if they are ILLEGAL they ought not be RESIDENTS, right?
Related: Congress Coddles Terrorists
But the latest version of the Dream Act focuses largely on allowing illegal immigrant students to apply for legal residency, which is an issue that affects public and private colleges such as Harvard because its graduates cannot legally work in this country. (The act would make it easier for states to charge resident tuition, but does not require it).
Private colleges do not rely on government funding and can decide to finance those students on their own.
Even though they are ILLEGAL, 'eh?
So the raids of workplaces, et al, are just for-show sh** fooleys for 'murkn sh**-eating consumption, 'eh?
Harvard students said they have been lobbying Faust for months on the issue. They held a rally and submitted a petition with 120 signatures, said Harvard junior Kyle de Beausset, one of the organizers. In recent months, two Harvard students who are in the United States illegally met with Faust in her office to seek her support. Yesterday, one of those students, an 18-year-old former high school valedictorian who has been in the United States since he was 9, said he was thrilled.
WTF? I guess the LAW is ONLY FOR YOU, s***-chomping Amurkns.
"We realized that what we were asking her to do wasn't an easy thing. The issue of immigration is politically charged," said the student, who spoke on the condition that his name not be used. "I am and will forever be indebted to this institution."
But Bob Dane, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said Harvard should not admit illegal immigrants because they displace students here legally. "Maybe the elites at Harvard should come down from their ivory tower and get some ground perspective on what kind of cost and competition that legal US residents are actually incurring these days," said Dane.
Yup, that is NICE BALANCE from the PRO-ILLEGALS Globe!
I'm SO TIRED of their ONE-SIDEDNESS on DAMN NEAR EVERY ISSUE!!!
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Of course, SHE ain't hurting for DOUGH!
This as the endowment plummets, tuition is hiked, and services, techaers, and classes cut.
It is the SAME in EVERY SCHOOL SYSTEM, isn't it?
Hey, I learned something today: AmeriKa's indoctri, 'er, inculcat, 'er, brainwas, um, ejerkashen, that's right, AmeriKa's ejerkashen system is nothing but ANOTHER LOOTING OPERATION!
Harvard University paid its president, Drew Gilpin Faust, $775,043, including benefits, for the 2007-08 fiscal year, her first year on the job, according to the university's annual Internal Revenue Service filing released yesterday. It was the first time Faust's salary was made public.
The amount reflects $640,000 in cash compensation, $81,304 in moving and other expenses, and $53,739 in benefits. Harvard provides its president with a home on campus in addition to her compensation.
Yup, the RICH GET RICHER and the poor get s*** in their mouth -- or a toilet swab at $11 bucks an hour.
Faust's salary falls far below what several other private college presidents in the area earn. The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual survey, released last fall, showed Suffolk University's president, David Sargent, who received $2.8 million in compensation in 2006-07, as the highest-paid college president in the country.
Robert Brown, Boston University president, made $901,692 in 2006-07, and MIT's president, Susan Hockfield, was paid $808,698 that year. Pay for presidents at private research universities averaged $527,000 nationally.
No wonder the tuitions are so damn high: you are subsidizing avarice!
Also see: Pigs at the State Trough
Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, who was forced to resign in 2006, was paid $611,226 during his final year as president in 2005-06. Yesterday's filing showed that Summers received $732,373 for the last fiscal year, 2007-08, during which he was a university professor, Harvard's highest-ranking professorship. He also has a $1 million mortgage loan from the university.
Un-frikkin'-real!
Summers's 2007-08 earnings reflect $580,000 in cash compensation, $120,452 in expenses and other allowances, and $31,921 in benefits. His expenses and other allowances include a $62,640 in "special agreement payment," $52,042 in loan interest subsidies, and $5,500 from the Harvard Kennedy School. He left in January to serve as director of President Obama's National Economic Council.
Also see: Censoring Larry Summers' Conflict-of-Interest
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