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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When Your Own Book Gets Caught Up in the Censorship Wars</strong> - I had envisioned book bans as modern morality plays—but the reality was far more complicated. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/when-your-own-book-gets-caught-up-in-the-censorship-wars">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Death of a Relic Hunter</strong> - Bill Erquitt was an unforgettable character among Georgia’s many Civil War enthusiasts. After he died, his secrets came to light. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-death-of-a-relic-hunter">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Road to Dubai</strong> - The latest round of international climate negotiations is being held in a petrostate. What could go wrong? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-road-to-dubai">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An “Academic Transformation” Takes On the Math Department</strong> - A series of cuts at West Virginia University has largely affected the humanities, but any program that is not seen as marketable may get the axe. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/an-academic-transformation-takes-on-the-math-department">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Dead Children We Must See</strong> - It’s time for Americans to rethink their squeamishness about releasing the photos of the youngest victims of mass violence. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dead-children-we-must-see">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>What is life like in Palestine? These short films offer a glimpse.</strong> -
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A still from <em>Bonboné</em>, featuring Rana Alamuddin. | Netflix
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3 Palestinian short films available on Netflix show life under occupation.
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For those wondering what life in <a href="https://www.vox.com/palestine">Palestine</a> looks like, <em>Condom Lead</em> (2013), directed by Palestinian twins Arab and Tarzan Nasser, offers a striking visual metaphor: The short film opens with an apartment full of balloons, drawing the viewer in. But the scripted work takes place during the first Gaza War in 2008 and 2009. Why are there so many balloons in this house during a war, when there is no celebration occurring?
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That night, we see the residents of the house, a married couple, as they try to have sex. They draw toward each other, softly touching feet and thighs, but they are interrupted by the sound of bombs, which makes their infant cry. The husband then takes a condom, blows it up, and lets it float through the apartment wherever it may land — on the floor, on the bookcase, on their child. We realize this is his compulsion, a coping technique, a way of keeping score of what is taken from them.
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Over the last seven weeks, life in <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080046/gaza-palestine-israel">Gaza</a> has been quite literally unimaginable. Following the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7/23907323/israel-war-hamas-attack-explained-southern-israel-gaza">October 7 attacks by Hamas</a> that killed 1,200 Israelis and <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23910641/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestine-explainer">Israel’s subsequent siege of Gaza</a> with its 13,000 Palestinian deaths, there have been <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/10/29/23937655/israel-ground-assault-gaza-hamas-explained">intermittent</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67441025">communications blackouts</a> in the territory. The siege has meant Palestinians are contending with a full-blown <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/11/23956555/israel-hamas-war-gaza-humanitarian-pauses-explained-hospitals-shifa">humanitarian crisis</a>, including attacks on <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/5/23947500/israel-hamas-war-civilian-infrastructure-ceasefire-protests">refugee camps</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/6/23949597/gaza-al-shifa-hospitals-supplies-airstrikes">hospitals</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-bank-israeli-settler-palestine-gaza-war-violence">increased violence in the West Bank</a>. Even knowing all that, communication failures and incredible <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/media/gaza-journalists-reliable-sources/index.html">challenges for journalists</a> mean there is so much we don’t know.
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This story, however, did not begin in October 2023; the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080002/israel-palestine-conflict-history-overview-map">roots of the conflict</a> reach much further back. By understanding what came before, and what everyday life looks like for people, couples, and families under occupation, we can add to our understanding of what’s happening now and how we got here. A selection of short films, all easily available on <a href="https://www.vox.com/netflix">Netflix</a>, from Palestinian directors can give viewers outside the region a sense of the alienation, oppression, and human longing that have characterized life in the territories for decades. These films tell the story of trying to make a life under sustained duress.
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<img alt="An apartment hallway with balloons all over the ground." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/2UMA9_rwtcDjspDXOHzG6xtn1E8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25115429/Screen_Shot_2023_11_27_at_12.58.36_PM.png"/> <cite>Netflix</cite>
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A film still from <em>Condom Lead </em>shows one couple’s thwarted intimacy.
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By the end of the 15-minute <em>Condom Lead</em>, the apartment is even more full of balloons, representing 22 days since the couple has successfully had sex. Each balloon stands for a missed opportunity for communion, intimacy, and love. Each balloon represents an act of Israeli aggression, an occupation whose chokehold is so strong it invades even this couple’s bed. We’re not told what this couple’s plans for children are, but judging by the condoms, we know they’re not looking to conceive right now. We know, at least, that their home is currently being bombed. Not only has the military assault made having children feel fraught and dangerous, but it has taken away the opportunity for closeness.
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The specter of the Israeli forces looms large throughout these films, but maybe nowhere so intensely as in the Israeli prison system, the location of writer-director Rakan Mayasi’s<em> Bonboné </em>(2017). In this film, a Palestinian woman (Rana Alamuddin) smuggles sperm from her imprisoned husband (Saleh Bakri) so that she can become pregnant.
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When director Mayasi, who, like many members of the Palestinian diaspora is prevented by the Israeli occupation to visit or live in Palestine, heard stories of couples navigating love and procreation amid the prison system, he felt an urge to put it in his art. “The strength, beauty, and creativity of resisting occupation with love is a subject that needs to be told,” he says.
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The Israeli prison system is harrowing for Palestinians. The <a href="https://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201512_backed_by_the_system">testimony of Mazen Abu ’Arish</a>, a 22-year-old surveyor from the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080034/west-bank-israel-palestinians">West Bank</a> who spent 20 days in solitary confinement in <a href="https://www.vox.com/israel">Israel</a>’s Shikma prison, speaks clearly to the spirit-breaking conditions; “In there, you have no room to move and no desire to do a thing,” he wrote.
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<em>Bonboné </em>is set against this backdrop and addresses “the issue of reproduction, both sexual and social,” says <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/ac/people/faculty/ucable.html">Umayyah Cable</a>, a Palestinian-American professor at the University of Michigan who researches the role that art, film, and media play in the mobilization of Palestine solidarity politics. The film speaks “to anxieties and worries about Palestinian sexuality, the nuclear family, intimacy, and the literal reproduction of Palestinian society.”
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Israel does not allow conjugal visits for prisoners, so smuggling sperm is the only way families can reproduce when a partner is incarcerated. In 2020, Walid Daqqah, sentenced to life in prison, petitioned the Israeli court to allow him to have children with his wife San Salameh in a fertility clinic. His request was denied, so he smuggled his sperm to his wife, leading to the birth of their daughter Milad, whose name means “birth” in Arabic. This story inspired Mayasi. “I think such a story needs to be told,” the director told <a href="https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/07/21/bonbone/">Short of the Week</a>. “It is so beautiful to defy occupation and resist with love and life.”
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Conceiving in this way has an inevitable element of dehumanization, but it also shows how Palestinians resist their oppression. <em>Bonboné</em> doesn’t shy away from humiliation; the film shows the husband trying to masturbate as practice the night before but having trouble, his attempts constantly interrupted by sounds of prison guard announcements and metal cages clinging. It’s clear that here, in this prison, he cannot connect with himself in such an intimate way. When his wife comes the next day, her body is violated by the Israeli female prison guard, who makes her strip naked, puts her hands in her hair, and forces her to bend over and squat.
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“The Israeli state is extremely preoccupied with Palestinian reproduction,” Cable says. “Demographically, Palestinians outnumber Jewish Israelis. As we know from apartheid South Africa and the Jim Crow South in the US, minority rule over a majority population is not only frowned upon by human rights agencies and the United Nations, it’s recognized as anti-democratic.”
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In 2021, an Israeli professor <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/07/11/its-all-about-demography-stupid/">argued</a> in the right-wing tabloid Israel Hayom that, “Our strategy has to be demographic expansion and blocking Arab-Muslim migration to Israel. If we don’t understand that victory in the conflict — Jewish, or, God forbid, Arab — is demographic in nature rather than military, then we will lose.”
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<em>Bonboné</em> doesn’t end the story with degradation, choosing instead to give the couple moments of love and eroticism. When the wife sees her husband, she is joyous and hopeful, asking what they will name the child if he is a boy. When her husband informs her that he might have difficulty performing, she takes it upon herself to arouse him right there through the glass. It’s not particularly graphic, but it is beautiful. She focuses the fantasy on a time when he was free, when they made love during a stolen moment at his brother’s engagement party, when they felt connected to each other and to their community. It is hard to tell if his arousal is physical or emotional, whether he is imagining his wife’s body or simply imagining being free, being allowed to connect with another human.
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“I generally like to deconstruct stereotypes and challenge norms, and I found <em>Bonboné</em> a fruitful opportunity to do that. It innately has lovemaking in it, it is never an added scene or an added tool in the film; it is the central idea the film is built around,” director Mayasi tells Vox. “Taking the film into the genre of sensual eroticism has given the film a louder and bolder voice. This also changed the power dynamic at the prison, the couple were stronger than their occupiers.”
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Despite prison conditions, the husband in <em>Bonboné</em> is able to feel desire and connection, even through the glass. Victorious, his wife retrieves the semen from him, smuggled in a candy wrapper (hence the title, a play on the French word for candy). On the way home, her bus is stopped by soldiers who search the bus. Once again, her attempt at a family is threatened. But she is not deterred, looking around to make sure the women are either asleep or looking away, and inseminates herself right there on the bus. It is an ending that has triumph, agency, and resilience, a portrait of a people who refuse to be denied their humanity.
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As Palestinian film director Farah Nabulsi, director of <em>The Present</em> (2020), tells Vox, the systemic tyranny Palestinians face spreads to the “realm of love and intimacy.”
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“The pervasive stress and anxiety of living in a constant state of fear can create emotional distance and conflict in intimate relationships. Restrictions on movement and segregation policies can severely limit opportunities for meeting partners and maintaining relationships,” Nabulsi says.
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<img alt="a man and a little girl trying to pass through a security checkpoint" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-zH6BP8qiY6wFrfH-stTuDypdYA=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25115433/Screen_Shot_2023_11_27_at_12.56.02_PM.png"/> <cite>Netflix</cite>
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A still from <em>The Present</em>, showing father and daughter trying to pass a security checkpoint.
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In <em>The Present</em>, Nabulsi’s film, a father in the West Bank named Yusuf (Saleh Bakri) and his daughter Yasmin (Maryam Kanj) set out on what seems a simple task: buying his wife and her mother Noor (Mariam Basha) an anniversary present — specifically, a new refrigerator. But the labyrinth of checkpoints and violence inflicted there makes what should have been a day of bonding between a daughter and father into a traumatic experience.
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When they first try to leave, the Israeli soldiers force Yusuf to wait in a holding pen with other men. He asks them not to because he is with his daughter, but his pleas only seem to make them more insistent on cruelty. Later, after he is released, he sees that Yasmin has urinated herself because the wait was so long and traumatic. When Yusuf expresses concern and tells her she should have spoken up, Yasmin says, “It’s okay, Dad. There was nothing you could do.” His face crumples upon hearing this. A parent’s job is to protect their child, and he is devastated to see that at such a young age, she is already learning that, in the occupation, there are limits to what her father can do to protect her.
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Nabulsi tells Vox that this story highlights how the occupation seeps its way into the fabric of family life for Palestinians. “In this hardship, the roots of their bond might grow deeper. The shared ordeal becomes a silent teacher of empathy. The young girl may come to understand the depth of her father’s struggles and the complexities of the world they navigate.”
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It’s demonstrated to both of them again, at night, as they attempt to roll the fridge past the checkpoint. Even though their house is right there, in sight, the Israeli soldiers order them to take an hours-long detour. The soldiers dehumanize the family further, searching their grocery bags to find Yasmin’s soiled pants from before and taunting them. “You’re all disgusting,” one of the Israeli soldiers spits.
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Yusuf pleads until he demands forcefully to be let through, resorting to yelling and banging on the table. It’s a terrifying moment: The Israeli soldier’s guns are pointed at him, and the audience imagines how this will end — a father shot to death in front of his daughter — but then we hear a creaking of the gate and see Yasmin, looking smaller than she has looked the entire film but somehow also stronger, rolling the refrigerator past the checkpoint herself. Yusuf and the soldiers are stunned, and Yusuf begins to walk alongside his daughter, who resolutely keeps going. It is a deeply sad triumph. And as Nabulsi points out, it is ultimately unrealistic.
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“The stark reality often dictates a grim outcome — either an encounter with deadly force or the infliction of physical injury and/or arrest. But as a storyteller often drawn to the somber hues of human experience, I felt compelled to offer an ending with more hope,” Nabulsi says. “A suggestion that hinted at a brighter future, spearheaded by the youth — interestingly, a female. It’s her, and other youth like her, emerging resilient and assertive, who captivate my imagination.”
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“I remain a woman anchored by hope, by an unwavering faith in the strength and potential of my community,” Nabulsi continues. “This film is a testament to that belief: a narrative that ultimately chooses to embrace the possibility of change and the promise of a generation poised to redefine their destiny.”
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<li><strong>What to know about the new FAFSA</strong> -
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The application for getting federal financial aid has changed for 2024-2025. Here’s how to fill it out.
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College tuition is a hefty sum for many students and their families in America: <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/paying-for-college-infographic">Average yearly tuition</a> at a private university totals $42,162; $23,630 for public out-of-state tuition; and $10,662 for public in-state tuition. It’s no surprise, then, that over 85 percent of undergraduates are awarded some form of <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_331.20.asp">financial aid</a> — including federal aid, state and local grants and scholarships, institutional grants and scholarships, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/student-loan-debt">student loans</a> — according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. The path to receiving money for college is through the <a href="https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa">Free Application for Federal Student Aid</a>, or FAFSA. The <a href="https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/what-is-the-fafsa">FAFSA</a> is a form students and/or their parents complete to apply for federal grants, work-study funds, and loans. Many states and colleges also use this application to determine students’ eligibility for state and school financial aid, too. As the name says, it is completely free to submit the application.
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The FAFSA form usually opens for the following academic year <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/fafsa-deadline">on October 1</a> — <a href="https://studentaid.gov/help/renewal-fafsa">students must complete the form each year</a> — but the 2024-25 FAFSA form will be <a href="https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2023-11-15/update-simplified-streamlined-redesigned-2024-25-fafsa">available by December 31, 2023</a>, due to changes in the application. That means if you are planning on attending college and want to receive financial aid for fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters, this is the form you will complete. The Federal Student Aid office has a <a href="https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/topics/fafsa-simplification-information/2024-25-fafsa-updates">webpage dedicated to announcements related to the simplified FAFSA</a> that you can check regularly for any updates. The federal deadline to complete the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2023/09/29/surprise-fafsa-for-2024-2025-school-year-opens-in-december/?sh=77fd9216244b">2024-25 FAFSA is June 30, 2025</a>, though <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/fafsa-deadlines">each college and state has its own deadline</a> (just a heads up, this link includes 2023-24 FAFSA deadlines; 2024-25 deadlines haven’t been posted yet) by which they need students to complete the form. Even though the federal deadline falls after the school year ends, financial aid<a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/fafsa-deadline"> funds can be applied retroactively </a>to what you already paid that year for tuition.
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If you have not previously applied for financial aid, <a href="https://studentaid.gov/fsa-id/create-account/launch">create a Federal Student Aid ID</a>, so you’re ready to start the application as soon as it goes live. “What parents and students can do now,” says Dean Bentley, the executive director of financial aid engagement at the <a href="https://www.collegeboard.org/">College Board,</a> “is to create a Federal Student Aid ID or FSA ID. The FSA ID is used to sign the FAFSA; it’ll be required for all students and parents or guardians who provide information on the FAFSA.”
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The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOgIb7StyPU">changes to the FAFSA include</a> a direct transfer of tax information from the IRS to the FAFSA form, increased <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/your-money/fafsa-changes-college-aid.html">eligibility for need-based grants</a>, and the elimination of a discount for families with multiple children in college. The application will also be more streamlined, offering an easier experience.
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There is <a href="https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility">no income cut-off to be eligible for federal student aid</a>, so all college students are <a href="https://blog.collegeboard.org/what-is-the-fafsa">encouraged to apply</a>. The earlier you complete the form the better because <a href="https://studentaid.gov/resources/financial-aid-process-text">some aid is distributed on a first-come, first-served basis</a>. Whether it’s your first time applying for financial aid or you’re well-practiced, here’s a primer on how to complete the FAFSA, including tips for the new 2024-25 form.
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Where do I find the FAFSA form?
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The 2024-25 FAFSA form is <a href="https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa">online at StudentAid.gov</a>. You’ll need to <a href="https://studentaid.gov/fsa-id/create-account/launch">create an FSA ID</a> in order to begin the form.
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If you’re a <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/dependency">dependent student</a> — which is any student who is under 24; is not married and does not have legal dependents; is not a graduate or professional student; is not a veteran nor a member of the armed forces, or is not an emancipated minor — your parent or step-parent will need to create an FSA ID too so they can add their information to the form as a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtS0SnscMI">contributor</a>.”
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If you’re married, your spouse will also need to create an FSA ID. You’ll need a <a href="https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/creating-using-fsaid.pdf">Social Security number to get an FSA ID</a> right now, but those without Social Security numbers will soon be able to create an FSA ID without one, “probably right around the time the FAFSA opens,” says MorraLee Keller, the senior director of strategic programming at the <a href="https://www.ncan.org/">National College Attainment Network</a>.
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Contributors are one of the new features of the 2024-25 form. Anyone who will <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8uubc08CDE&list=PLtr3wy4M_CJ18cBXJb2r5mzyFoh9e9mcl&index=3">provide tax and personal information to your FAFSA form</a> should be listed as a contributor. Contributors are determined by your dependency status, marital status, and tax filing status. (For example, a contributor for a student under the age of 24 will be their parent. Married students’ contributors will be their spouses.) Contributors, despite the name, are not expected to contribute money to your tuition, just information to your FAFSA form. Make sure the student and any contributors have their FSA ID ready to go before the application opens, Keller says.
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8uubc08CDE&list=PLtr3wy4M_CJ18cBXJb2r5mzyFoh9e9mcl&index=3">Contributors will receive an email</a> informing them that they need to complete information for the student’s FAFSA. Contributors should try to complete their portion sooner rather than later. If there is no activity on a FAFSA for 45 days, the form is deleted and you’ll have to start again, Keller says. Should your contributors need more time, a student can log into their FAFSA form to reset the 45-day window.
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The student’s FSA ID should be the one used to start the application as they are the one applying for the financial aid. If you’re filling out the FAFSA on behalf of your child, <a href="https://studentaid.gov/articles/steps-to-complete-fafsa-form/">make sure to select</a> “I am a parent filling out a FAFSA form for a student.”
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What information should I have on hand?
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The FAFSA requires students and their parents to enter a <a href="https://studentaid.gov/help/info-needed">host of personal information</a>. Here’s what you should have readily available:
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Your date of birth, <a href="https://www.vox.com/social-programs">Social Security</a> number, address, and email.
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Your parents’ Social Security numbers if you are a dependent student.
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Your driver’s license number if you have one.
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If you are not a US citizen, your Alien Registration number.
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Tax returns for you, your spouse (if you’re married), or your parents (if you’re a dependent student).
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Records of child support received for you or your parents (if you’re a dependent student).
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Current balances of cash, savings, and checking accounts.
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Net worth of investments, businesses, and farms.
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As a part of the new FAFSA form, you’ll then need to provide consent and approval to import your federal tax information directly from the IRS. Your <a href="https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/financial-aid-basics/fafsa/how-to-complete-the-fafsa">family’s 2022 taxes must be completed</a> before you can import the tax information. If you are a non-tax filer, there will be a code that the IRS will fill in that indicates you don’t have a tax return on file, Keller says. “The parts that people may have had anxiety about in the past [like] making sure they’re putting in the right numbers,” she says, “that is going to be alleviated with this process.”
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Further along in the form, the student or their parents can add up to <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/school-list">20 colleges or career schools that will receive your information</a>. If you already know where you’re attending college — say, you’re a rising junior and have attended the same school since freshman year — add that college to the form. If you’re still in high school and have not committed to a college yet, <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out">add any school you applied to or plan on applying to</a>.
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What about my parents?
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If a dependent student is filling out the form on their own, they’ll be prompted to <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/parent-info">fill in their parents’ full names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and email addresses</a> so they can fill in their information separately. If the student’s parents are divorced or separated, the parent the student lived with more during the last year will need to fill out their portion of the FAFSA. If the student spent equal time with each parent, the one who <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/parent-info">provides most financial support</a> should fill out the FAFSA.
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7yWZyZfyEg">Parent contributors will need</a> their tax returns, records of child support received, current balances of cash, savings, and checking accounts, and net worth of investments, businesses, and farms. “Families that have income above $60,000 will need to report assets like cash savings, checking, real estate, stocks, bonds, and the net value of their small business or family farm,” Keller says. “While that sounds complicated, there’s a lot of instructions to help families understand,” Bentley says. “There’s even an overview video that they’ll be able to watch when they start the application.”
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A dependent student’s FAFSA form is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c0jWxxyx6s&list=PLtr3wy4M_CJ2Hrd0UwCAWJOgOPu8l_ZLf&index=4">not completed until their parent (and other contributors) completes their section</a>.
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What is the deadline to apply?
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Again, the earlier you apply after the application opens the better. However, there are some <a href="https://blog.collegeboard.org/what-is-the-fafsa">deadlines worth keeping in mind</a>. Each school has a different deadline for when you need to submit your FAFSA form, so check with your school (or the schools you applied to) to see when you need to submit your application for financial aid. <a href="https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/fafsa-deadlines#state">Every state has a different deadline</a>, too: For example, last year’s deadline to be considered for financial aid for the 2023-24 school year at a college in Maine was May 1, 2023. (Expect updated deadlines to be announced once the 2024-25 FAFSA form rolls out.) Federally, June 30 is the last day you can apply for financial aid for the upcoming school year.
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What should I expect after I submit my FAFSA form?
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After you and your contributors have finalized and sent off your FAFSA form, the Office of Federal Student Aid will review your information and it will be shared with the schools you listed. Because of the delayed rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA, schools will not receive the FAFSA information <a href="https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2023-11-15/update-simplified-streamlined-redesigned-2024-25-fafsa">until the end of January</a>. This will most impact incoming first-year college students who perhaps are waiting to receive financial aid offers from multiple schools before making a decision. Bentley suggests staying on top of communications from each school (including whether or not the school sends messages via mail, email, or text), reaching out to the schools’ financial aid offices proactively, and checking each school’s financial aid website for updates.
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Students should receive an email indicating that their FAFSA has been processed and sent to the listed colleges. You can log in to your Federal Student Aid account and check to see if you need to take any further action with your form.
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Then, you’ll receive a FAFSA Submission Summary, which includes a <a href="https://studentaid.gov/aid-estimator/">Student Aid Index,</a> a new term, which determines how much financial aid you could receive. Schools will use this number to create your financial aid offer.
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Your college may reach out if they need additional documentation or information.
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“The student,” Keller says, “will be waiting on the award notification to let them know how much financial aid they will have for next year, whether that’s federal and state aid, as well as institutional aid. So that award notification would be the primary document that the student is waiting on to receive after they file their FAFSA.”
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Can I see what this year’s form will look like?
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The Federal Student Aid office released a <a href="https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2023-09-29/announcing-2024-25-fafsa-prototype">prototype of the new FAFSA application process</a> so users can walk through the application process with mock names and scenarios. You can complete the application from the vantage point of both a student and a parent to get a feel for the questions that will be asked and the information needed.
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<li><strong>Local police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety news</strong> -
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<img alt="A photo of an iPhone showing the iOS 17 logo." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TWNWXU1CcTzetQ_hd4kdkBw1_AU=/364x0:6593x4672/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72912039/GettyImages_1750239496.0.jpg"/>
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Some police departments say kids could be in danger of accidentally sharing their contact info using NameDrop in iOS 17. This isn’t exactly true. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement.
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Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on <a href="https://www.vox.com/apple">Apple</a>’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have spread like an annoying chain letter across police department <a href="https://www.vox.com/facebook">Facebook</a> pages over the past few days. These warnings were misleading, but social media posts about online threats to kids don’t have to be true to get views.
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Dozens of police departments, some getting thousands of shares and generating media coverage, posted nearly identical alerts claiming that NameDrop would automatically allow strangers to steal your personal information just by placing their phone close to yours. (NameDrop, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-namedrop-ios17/">as Wired explained</a>, is enabled by default in Apple’s iOS 17 update, but sharing information between two unlocked phones requires users to actively consent to doing so in each instance, making a scenario such as the one described above virtually impossible.)
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One post from the Watertown Police Department in Connecticut warned that “anyone can place their phone next to yours (or your child’s phone) and automatically receive their contact information to include their picture, phone number, email address and more,” so long as the phone was unlocked. This post alone was shared at least 1,500 times on Facebook and is cited in <a href="https://www.wfsb.com/2023/11/26/police-are-warning-iphone-users-about-latest-update/">multiple</a> local <a href="https://www.wtnh.com/news/police-warning-parents-about-new-iphone-feature/">news</a> <a href="https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/police-warn-parents-of-new-iphone-feature-after-ios-17-update-should-you-be-concerned/3158112/">segments</a>.
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The warning about Apple’s new NameDrop feature isn’t particularly interesting in isolation: a run-of-the-mill exaggerated panic about yet another digital danger facing children. But taken in context, it’s a great example of the role that law enforcement social media presences can play in spreading urban legends and moral panics, from viral teen challenges to <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23034255/state-of-weed-thc-snacks-beverages-artet-potli">THC</a>-laced Halloween candy.
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Rumors like these are probably getting shared, in part, for the same reasons they’re likely to be believed: Nobody wants to be the one who ignored a warning about a danger that led to a child being harmed. But also, this genre of legend gets views on social media, which can grow the influence and authority of the poster. And some experts are warning that there’s more at stake here than just the follower counts of a local sheriff’s department on Facebook.
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Social media has helped local police more directly speak to the public without the filter of verification via media coverage, according to <a href="https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/people/jennifer-grygiel">Jennifer Grygiel</a>, an associate professor of communications at Syracuse University. Like anyone else looking for social media engagement, police departments are incentivized to post things that get views. Sometimes, that can be pretty innocuous: a <a href="https://www.vox.com/internet-culture">meme</a> here, a cute pic of a police dog there. Other times, it includes amplifying moral panics. The effect is the same.
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“I love a police dog too. But if you’re doing it to grow your audience on Facebook — which grows your police department in your local town bigger than the local newspaper’s Facebook page, if you even have a local newspaper now — then that’s a problem,” Grygiel said.
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Police have long played a role in shaping and adding credibility to urban legends. <a href="https://chass.usu.edu/english/directory/lynne-mcneill">Lynne McNeill</a>, an associate professor of folklore at Utah State University, points to a number of examples from the 1980s centered around fears about “gang warfare,” she explained, including the “lights-out legend.” You’ve likely heard this story: Gang members are driving around with their headlights off, waiting to kill the next Good Samaritan who flashes their headlights at them. Over the course of her research, McNeill says she’s seen multiple examples of this <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/">unfounded</a> legend appearing on flyers distributed by police as public service warnings.
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But in the past two decades, social media has supercharged the role that local law enforcement and other government agencies can play in amplifying unverified stories and dubious rumors, allowing warnings to spread quicker and farther than a photocopied flier. A brief review of the dozens of posts by local police departments on Facebook about the NameDrop feature reveals how similar these posts read to one another, as though some departments were just copying and pasting portions of those warnings from each other, riding the wave of attention from local community to local community.
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As unverified posts from authorities like these spread, they begin creating their own authority. Now, a random fear about a new iPhone feature or a recipe for <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/nyquil-chicken-fda-warning-tiktok-trend">NyQuil Chicken</a> isn’t just coming from nowhere, McNeill noted. “When people share the news in the less authoritative realms of talk and conversation and rumor, then they have that referenced authority,” she said, whether it’s a local police station or the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/recipe-danger-social-media-challenges-involving-medicines">Federal Drug Administration</a>.
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The panic about NameDrop is, at least, relatively simple to debunk. It just requires a cursory look at how the Apple feature actually works. But sometimes, these stories contain just enough truth to make fact-checking difficult. McNeill brought up the example of the Momo Challenge, which caused a round of panicked warnings in 2019 about a “trending” game in which kids were being blackmailed into self-harm. By that point, the idea of the Momo Challenge had been around the internet for years and had been linked to as many as three deaths. Fears about it as an online trend in 2019 were entirely <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/01/momo-challenge-isnt-viral-danger-children-online-it-sure-is-viral/">unfounded</a>; the “trend” traced back to an anonymous post in a community Facebook group in the UK before being picked up by local news and law enforcement social media pages.
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In theory, journalists could and should play a role in verifying these stories as they emerge from the official social media accounts of government institutions. But Grygiel’s research indicates that the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2020.1759123">opposite is happening in some cases</a>. Local broadcast news increasingly seems to play a passive role in amplifying social media posts from police departments, they said. And while that might make it much easier for understaffed newsrooms to cover conversations happening within their communities, it’s also shifting the “watchdog” role of media away from local journalists and toward local police departments.
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In any case, there are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/technology/instagram-meta-children-privacy.html">plenty of real things to worry about</a> at the intersection of child safety and technology that don’t simply recycle the decades-old <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22358153/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-conspiracy-theories-explained">stranger-danger moral panic</a>.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Daily Quiz | On FC Barcelona</strong> - A quiz on FC Barcelona, one of the world’s most sporting teams, that had its genesis on November 29, 1899</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>J&K Police book NIT student for ‘hurting religious sentiments’ in Srinagar</strong> - Protests spread in the Kashmir Valley following reports of an objectionable post shared on social media by the student</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Joanna Parrish murder: French serial killer’s ex-wife tried in student cold case</strong> - Monique Olivier goes on trial in France 33 years after Joanna Parrish was found dead in a river.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Victorian naturalist traded aboriginal remains in a scientific quid pro quo</strong> - Morton Allport acquired his specimens through networks and sometimes grave-robbing - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986689">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference</strong> - Male organizer also accused of secretly running female coder Instagram account. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986849">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout</strong> - The US already lags far behind China and Europe, but we’re going too fast, dealers say. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986891">link</a></p></li>
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They each agreed for a tour of their country under one condition about the homosexuals. The Saudi and Dutch thought they had very similar beliefs about gays. However, once at Saudi Arabia, the Dutch was mortified at all of the brutal death penalty methods used for homosexuality. At the Netherlands, the Saudi was mortified to see tons and tons of gay people smoking weed out of peace pipes and such. They simultaneously said in utter shock and confusion, with a bit of betrayal; “What the hell? I thought you said your nation was the land of gays getting stoned!”
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The clerk asked me why. “Just look at my application,” I said. “If you were named Oskar Von Wootengootenbootenshoot, wouldn’t you want something different?”
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He then told me to stay away from fatty and unhealthy foods. Thus, with a heavy heart, I made a profound decision. I decided that I will never be going back to that doctor again.
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I see him every morning and he asks me If I’ve seen his wife. Everyday I have to tell this poor man that his wife died 20 years ago. I could have moved to another house or even ignore his question. But the look of joy in his eyes whenever I answer him is worth the world.
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