STUDENT LOAN PANEL STACKED WITH “ACTIVISTS?” “The number of negotiators without much experience on nitty-gritty financial aid issues — and with a history of activism on student aid issues — left some college and financial aid lobbyists with an uneasy sense that the Obama administration might have an agenda other than the stated one for the panel. And while they declined to speculate what that agenda might be, several said they suspected it would be unlikely to be friendly to for-profit institutions.”