News
Financial aid initiative remains priority for Roth, despite economic downturn
By Lydia Tomkiw
In light of the nation’s current economic crisis, the University is reevaluating its expenditures and beginning a new fundraising campaign that will significantly contribute to the maintenance of scholarships and financial aid as part of President Michael Roth’s seven initiatives. Progress towards this part of the initiative was initially taken during Roth’s inaugural year as president, as loans were replaced by grants for families earning less than $40,000 a year. The University also partnered with QuestBridge, a non-profit program which links motivated low-income students with the country’s top universities.
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Features
Prof. recruits students to research abroad
By Jae Aron
When identical twins Charles Puelz ’11 and David Puelz ’11 stopped by Assistant Professor of Physics Tsampikos Kottos’ office to ask about a problem set they were working on for his class, they did not expect anything more to come of the conversation. One week later, however, Kottos called the twins back into his office and invited them to join his research group in Germany for the summer.
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Wespeaks
Moutinho: Pay your taxes and read your history
By Nicholas Davenport
The overuse of capital letters in Nicholas Moutinho’s Wespeak (“Obama supporters: have you read the Constitution?” Nov. 14, 2008, Volume CXLIV, Number 20) made me suspect momentarily that the author is not entirely serious. However, he seems sincere, and his arguments have been made by many and are worth rebutting.
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