| LCC registration system produces more headaches for students, staff
Midway through the first week of classes at Lansing Community College, Reba Milow still was trying to register. The school's online registration system hadn't been working, and the East Lansing 18-year-old, who had come to campus to get her schedule worked out with an actual person, was frustrated. "I cannot drop classes. I cannot register for classes," she said. "The furthest I can go is to log into my account, but, as far as registration or anything like that, it won't even open up." .
UVa Aid Policy Gets a Facelift
A year ago, the University of Virginia joined the growing list of selective institutions altering their financial aid policies to make them friendlier to students from low-income families. Now it has decided that it needs to do even more, and do it sooner, than originally planned. .
No slowing down Tarter
Tough to stop in basketball and even tougher to beat on the track. The same sort of dominance is expected out of Tarter in the spring. This spring, however, will be different for Tarter because she won't be worried about what colleges are watching her perform. Her big decision on where to attend college is already taken care of. In September, Tarter gave the nod to Wisconsin for track. She wanted to attend a Big 10 school not to far away from home, and this was perfect. Wisconsin captured Tarter's attention when the basketball team traveled there for a tournament two summers ago. "It's always been one of those schools where you are like, 'Oh, wouldn't it be cool to go there?,'" Tarter said. "Then when they offered me a full ride, I was like, 'Oh, that's cool.' When I visited, I really liked it.
Volunteers brighten lives with Thanksgiving meal
Strangers, even," Pitts said as she ate Thanksgiving dinner Thursday with her family at the Salvation Army's annual Thanksgiving Day lunch. Salvation Army Capt. Roy Harris estimated that about 300 people came to the dining hall to eat. Another 250 plates were prepared and delivered to those who were not able to come to the shelter on Bell Street. Harris said the Thanksgiving day meal is part of the "practical expression" of the Salvation Army's mission of sharing love, kindness and generosity to those in need. Volunteer Mae Cohen couldn't agree more. "It just makes me feel good to see that everyone got Thanksgiving dinner," said Cohen, a first-grade teacher who said she was especially glad to have helped children. Through donations, the Salvation Army was able to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving meal with all the fixings.
A TV Ad For Obama
The opening salvo in the presidential air wars is a 30-second spot on health care to be broadcast in the Hartford-New Haven market and on cable systems in Fairfield County, said David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager.
Plouffe declined to say if the campaign will invest in expensive television time in New York, the home turf of Hillary Rodham Clinton. But he said they will compete in New York, even if polls show they cannot win.
The winner-take-all rules of Republican primaries force GOP candidates to carefully target their resources, but the Democratic primaries are proportional races.
"You can aggregate delegates even in someone's backyard, like Sen. Clinton's," Plouffe said.
Plouffe called the Connecticut buy "substantial," but declined to give specifics.
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In fact, Romney's ad stood out not so much for its negativity, but for its very existence in a year in which both parties are experiencing wide-open races for the White House. "There were lessons learned last time that no one wanted to repeat," said Steve McMahon, who worked for Howard Dean in the 2004 campaign and now is a Democratic strategist. "Namely that the attacker wasn't the beneficiary of the attack, and they turned out to be their own victim." In the past, "the Democrats were always having a food fight on its way to a fist fight on its way to a knife fight," added Dennis Goldford, a professor at Drake University who has studied Iowa's caucuses for two decades. This time, he said, "I think that while we had the occasional occurrence of something that seems like a personal attack, by and large it has been fairly civil." Among Republicans, he singled out Romney for his ads critical of Huckabee.
Matthews unveils Clinton plan to make higher education more accessible
Increasing a tuition tax credit, increasing Pell grants and simplifying the student aid process are a few of the proposals Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton campaign officials unveiled Thursday morning as part of her effort to make college more affordable and accessible.Sen. John Matthews, a state co-chair of the Clinton presidential campaign, presented Clinton's educational plan during a press conference held on the s.jpg of Claflin University's Tingley Memorial Hall.Speaking to about 20 students gathered behind him, Matthews stressed the impact Clinton's plan would have on them and thousands of other college students."If we can reduce your cost to go to college, more of our children will have access and all of us will be better off," Matthews said. "This plan is intended to make sure that lower income students have a chance to compete in this knowledge-based economy by getting a college degree and reducing your burden when you get out of college.
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