Posted Sunday, January 28th, 2007 by HLPRonline editorial staff
Service Pays: Creating Opportunities by Linking College with Public Service
By ELIZABETH WARREN, SANDY BAUM, and GANESH SITARAMAN
Americans are a contentious lot. We express an astonishing variety of opinions about politics and religion, sports teams and movies, vitamin supplements and workplace dress codes. Differences on questions of social class, the acceptable level of economic inequality, and the importance of economic mobility are particularly sharp. But on one idea we are united: 97% of American parents agree that a college degree is “absolutely necessary” or “helpful” to secure their children’s future. In fact, Americans see a college degree as the single most important determinant of young people’s chances of future success—their ticket to the future. But it is becoming harder than ever for families to pay for that ticket. And as students increasingly try to shoulder the burden, many are leaving college deep in debt, tempering the good news of higher earning potential with the higher risks associated with debt. Many others, including almost 20% of low-income high school graduates with high test scores, do not manage to enroll in college at all within two years of graduating high school.
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I have been wtihcang “So you think you can dance” since season 3, and only missed season 6. I have watched the dancers try new dances that were really hard to do. The dancers either did them well or were elimated off the show. I can not believe this season! If you have noticed there has been more contempory dancing than any of the other types of dances. It has been like wtihcang these dancers take the easy road, while the judges say this has been the best season ever. In my opinion these dancers have not worked as hard as those before them! I also wish the judges would just tell the dancers what is right or wrong with their performance instead of telling the public over the TV who their favorite is. That is something that I think a JUDGE is suppose to do, and that is judge and not give me their favorites. It seems to me like they are trying to influence the voters to go their way. If this is a voting show then I think they need to leave the voting to us, and to our opinions of who we thought was good. Then let their favorites be discussed among themselves perhaps after the show or at another time, but not on the air.
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