The school of Governor/Brevet Major General Joshua Chamberlain, the Hero of Gettyburg.
Posted on 12/22/2014 10:15:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Justin Ramos, a sophomore at Bowdoin, is the son of Rafael Ramos, who was killed in his patrol car with fellow officer Wenjian Liu on Saturday.
Bowdoin College is waiving tuition for a sophomore student who is the son of one of the New York police officers killed Saturday in Brooklyn, campus officials announced Monday.
Bowdoin will provide full financial aid to Justin Ramos, who is scheduled to graduate with the Class of 2017, for the remainder of his education.
“We are eager to welcome Justin back to campus for the start of our second semester in January, or whenever he is ready to return, and we will do everything we can to support him through this period,” the school said in a statement Monday.
The two officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, were ambushed inside their patrol car Saturday in Brooklyn and shot to death. The suspected gunman ran into a nearby subway station and committed suicide.
A charity founded by the late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, the Silver Shield Foundation, had offered to pay the tuition, but Bowdoin officials said the school intends to cover the cost.
“We are grateful for the Yankee Silver Shield Foundation’s offer to assist, but Bowdoin has it covered,” Monday’s statement said.
On Sunday, Bowdoin President Barry Mills posted a statement online notifying the Bowdoin community and announcing that Justin Ramos had left campus to be with his family in New York, saying, “This is an unspeakable tragedy, and our hearts go out to Justin and his family. We are a close community, and we share in Justin’s pain and anguish.”
The full cost of tuition and room and board at Bowdoin is about $60,000 a year.
The school of Governor/Brevet Major General Joshua Chamberlain, the Hero of Gettyburg.
That is so nice to hear.
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His father was about to become a Catholic Lay Minister.
While I don't know it for a fact, would any of us be surprised to learn that he has left a scattering of kids distributed to various babymamas?
Isn’t that what juvenile hall or reform school is for?
For the most part, modern Bowdoin is a left wing mediocre east coast liberal arts college. Nice to see them trying to do the right thing, for once.
A great story! I read earlier that the New York Yankees were going to pay for the education costs. Maybe they can find something else they can do.
if only nyc had a billionaire mayor or 2 that could help
Still, if a choice between the paid tuition and having your dad back were possible, I am sure everybody involved would choose having the dad somehow restored.
Good on them for doing this.
And for the news media: why is the gunman “suspected” while Officer Wilson “murdered” someone?
“Nice to see them trying to do the right thing, for once.”
Good thing he’s not going to Oberlin! They would have doubled his tuition!
The thug who assassinated those two NYPD officers came from a familiar mold: rap sheet as long as your arm; apparent convert to Islam and of course, misogynist. Before hopping a bus to New York, he tried to kill his girlfriend in Baltimore.
And notice that this young man wasn’t “about to turn his life around”-he was already an actual student, already going to school and presumably making the necessary grades to be there.
This young man is already an actual student, not an “aspiring rapper, about to turn his life around”.
Amen to that. He was already making his way through school.
Very nice. Are they feeling a little guilt?
Bowdoin is just down the road from the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. My wife and I like to stop in Brunswick to eat at Fat Boy’s (next to the base) on our way to Camden, Maine. You pass right by the Bowdoin Pines on your way to Fat Boy’s. Nice tradition old New England Campus, and the “atmosphere” is nowhere near as ratty as Ivy League or other prestige campuses.
Not a fan of Bowdoin, but this is a classy thing to do.
"...Nice tradition old New England Campus, and the “atmosphere” is nowhere near as ratty as Ivy League or other prestige campuses..."
Appreciate what they are doing for this kid but wow....$60,000 a year for college!!!
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