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Needless to say, Dartmouth's new financial aid package is gaining attention. The Daily Dartmouth writes:

Dartmouth’s financial aid reform ... makes the College’s financial aid offer for low-income families the “strongest in the nation,” James Wright, president of the College, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

That appears, on the surface at least, to fly in the face of a New York Times opinion piece this week that suggested:

The problem is that most colleges will feel compelled to follow Harvard and Yale’s lead in price-discounting. Yet few have enough money to give more aid to relatively wealthy students without taking it away from relatively poor ones.

A few tidbits directly quoted from a Boston Globe story:

• Already, 13 percent of Dartmouth students are the first members of their families to attend college and 14 percent receive federal Pell grants, which are for students from low-income families.
• (President Wright) said many students who will get free tuition also will get scholarships for costs such as room and board, books and other expenses.
• Tuition this year is $34,965; room, board and mandatory fees add $10,518, for a grand total of $45,483.

The Cornell Sun has an opinion piece about how the other Ivies are leaving Cornell behind. This story has some very interesting numbers in it, including anticipated debt at graduation for students at the Ivy schools. From the story:

Upon graduation, an average Cornell student on financial aid will have taken out $22k in need-based loans, while at Brown that number is $20k, for Dartmouth $17k, for Yale $8k, and a Princeton student will owe precisely nothing. Additionally, from 2006-2007, Cornell was the only Ivy whose average financial aid package, as well as its grants, has actually decreased.

Former linebacker Josh Dooley is quoted in a Denver Post story this week about -- what else? -- ducks, and not the Mighty kind. The Post draws information for its story from "a novel study by a Colorado State University graduate student to determine the effects of human disturbance on duck movements."

Former Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler hasn't seen the kind of crowds he'd hoped for as owner of the East Kentucky Miners, a Continental Basketball Association expansion team. A story quotes Miners co-owner Demetrius Ford: "(D)uring and after each game, Jay Fiedler and I scratch our heads wondering why we don’t have more fans in the stands." They'll try to turn that around starting with a $1 ticket night on Jan. 30.