The University announced this week it had opened up additional federally-funded College Work-Study slots, because several Harvard undergraduates who had originally been accepted to the program turned down their jobs. This enabled the University Student Employment Office to raise the maximum parental contribution level for work-study qualification from $650 to $700.
Unfortunately, there is a catch, and a large one at that. To qualify for one of the new posts, you have to be male.
Radcliffe, which already lags behind Harvard by a count of 542 to 84 in work-study jobs, overconcentrated its funds in summer jobs and exhausted approximately 50 per cent of its grant.
Lawrence E. Maguire '58, director of student employment, said Thursday he hopes to avoid similar disparities in the future.
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