Today's New York Times published a letter from a philosophy professor at Brown about work-study. Here it is:To the Editor:Re "College Admission Roulette: Ask for Financial Aid, or Not?" (Wealth Matters column, March 2):As a professor, I am dismayed that colleges sometimes use "a large portion of loans and campus jobs" to meet the needs of students whose families cannot pay full tuition.Working part time while attending school can be a good arrangement for a student whose classmates are in the same situation and whose professors, when giving assignments, take into account the likelihood that most students have part-time jobs.But expecting a student to take a part-time job at a campus where this is not the norm sets him up for failure by giving him less time for study than his classmates have.FELICIA NIMUE ACKERMANProvidence, R.I., March 3, 2013I'm not sure what to say about this - quaint? touchingly deluded? For the life of me I can't figure out why the New York Times devoted...
