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The Ledger 

     Schools of all shapes and sizes are getting more and more expensive. College tuition can range from twelve thousand dollars a year to fifty thousand dollars a year, not including room and board. Private schools' tuition has also gone up. In some cases, private prep schools can cost more than college. Our headmaster, Mr. Needham, has a son currently attending a college prep school and a daughter attending Elizabethtown College and is paying less for his daughter in col

lege than his son in boarding school. The 2004-05 school year at Linden Hall will also see a $2520 tuition increase.

     This increase will be used to pay for things like skyrocketing insurance rates, faculty raises (which I am assured are long overdue), and exorbitant heating and oil costs, which are rising across the country. When asked why it is so expensive to go to Linden Hall, our headmaster explained it quite simply: “The tuition of every student goes to

wards running the whole school. As Linden Hall is a small school, there is less money coming in from the tuition of the students, so that every student has to pay a higher price. With expansion and the growing economy, the price of the maintaining and running the school increases yearly, and so must tuition.” The good thing is that with increased tuition the school is also increasing the pool for need-based financial aid, making sure that Linden Hall will always be a diverse school with students from every walk of life.

      -Makena Levine

LH Raises Tuition

Our Very Own Ghost Busters

     Are you afraid of what goes bump in the night? Well, I am, and in this school there are a lot of things that go bump. For those of you who do not know about Linden Hall's haunted history, let me inform you of the places you do not want to go alone. You have your first obvious creepy place, the chapel. The story behind the chapel goes as follows.  Way back when in the Dark Ages a girl by the name of Mary Dixon went to Linden Hall,

and a few years after graduating she died. To honor his daughter’s life, her father had the Mary Dixon Chapel built. Sadly, he died before he could see it completed. These are the facts, and they are enough to keep me out of the chapel at night. Some of the strange things said to have happened there are ghosts being caught on camera, objects being moved, and unexplainable noises.

     Another popular tale is the one of the Lady in White. She is a

Also in this issue :

·          International Night

·          Changes in faculty for next year

·          Scholastics: a review

·          Ending the school year right, advice from a sage senior...

 

And  Much More!!!!!!!!

woman clothed in white frequently seen passing in the Hall way of Photos.

     Other places of high ghost activity are the library and the theater.  The scary happenings in the library range from books flying off shelves to electronics turning off by them -selves. Needless to say, the library at night can be a terrifying place. The happenings in the theater have two tales of spooks doing what they

Tegan Urbanski ready for a ghost hunt.

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