Saturday, May 26, 2007

"HAS ANYONE HERE ACTUALLY SEEN A FOOD STAMP?" Amherst College President Tony Marx has made it a mission to recruit more low-income students to campus and give them the resources to thrive. Sunday's NYT highlights Anthony Abraham Jack, a member of the class of 2007 graduating this weekend, who was raised as one of the children by a single mom earning $26,000 a year as a school security guard, and who during his four years at the Fairest College earned one of only ten A+ grades in Calculus in the past thirty years and became the College's Rhodes Scholarship nominee this year.

Do read Jack's own words, in which he convincingly argues he did not come "from the bottom to the top". May he and his classmates fulfill the College's motto, Terras Irradient, and give much light to the world.

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