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photo by Matt Roth.Tuesday, September 18, 2012..The loan payments for Wilson College's $25 million Harry R. Brooks Complex for Science, Mathematics and Technology are deferred until 2016. Such a payment structure loosens up cash-flow presently for the financially strapped institution, but remains a looming hurdle for the future...Wilson College President Barbara Mistick, created a commission to recommend ways of putting the tiny, all-female liberal arts college on a sustainable financial path. The Chambersburg, PA college nearly closed down in 1979 and is in danger of going under in the next few years if big changes aren't made. On the table are going co-ed, moving somewhere else, among other possibilities.

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photo by Matt Roth.Tuesday, September 18, 2012..The loan payments for Wilson College's $25 million Harry R. Brooks Complex for Science, Mathematics and Technology are deferred until 2016. Such a payment structure loosens up cash-flow presently for the financially strapped institution, but remains a looming hurdle for the future...Wilson College President Barbara Mistick, created a commission to recommend ways of putting the tiny, all-female liberal arts college on a sustainable financial path. The Chambersburg, PA college nearly closed down in 1979 and is in danger of going under in the next few years if big changes aren't made. On the table are going co-ed, moving somewhere else, among other possibilities.