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Sanders used faculty salary data provided by the American Association of University Professors and cost-of-living numbers from the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association (ACCRA). But for those cities for which ACCRA did not have cost-of-living estimates--about one-fourth of the list--Sanders extrapolated data from surrounding communities. For example, the cost-of-living figure for Providence, R.I. was determined using data from New Haven, Conn., Springfield, Mass. and Manchester...
...this prospect alarms Harvard administratorsto such a degree that the university's toplobbyist, Kevin A. Casey, has followed theday-to-day progress of ACCRA as it meanderedthrough congressional subcommittees and plans todo the same next year...
What troubles Casey the most about ACCRA areits provisions making more college officialsresponsible for acting on crime reports that cometheir...
...interview, Avery said that ACCRA's goalof opening up administrative disciplinaryprocedures to public scrutiny would make victimsof sexual assault less likely to come forward...
Although HUPD officers collected the studentfrom a sidewalk in Cambridge proper, ACCRA wouldrequire them to collect statistics on these typesof nebulous incidents--situations where HUPD has,in practice, wide discretion about how to classifythe incidents...