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...collective bargaining among students "would not be in the public interest." The Board really meant that unionization would force students without jobs to pay higher tuition in order to fund the increased wages of student workers. The NLRB thus subordinated the rights of student workers, who generally can least affort the cost of an education, to the rights of non-workers, who in most cases don't need the money...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Shuttle Diplomacy | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

Kurker said he works 80 hours a week and that if the tenants would go out and get a job they "could affort a suit just like mine...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Tenants, Landlords Battle Over City's Rental Rates | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

Some graduate students say the aid program will create a "two-tiered" graduate body comprising needy supported students and wealthy students who can affort to pay full tuition...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: A New Aid Plan At the GSAS | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...where it is about ten years younger at other universities with A.C. programs, as Dartmough, Cornell, Yale. One explanation is the environmental one: Hanover and Ithica offer a country-and-campus package attractive to those who wish to excape an urban environment. Another reason high cost. Younger alumni cannot affort a stiff $275 (for 10 days) for a refresher course. (Yale's price...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: From Nostalgia to Diploma: The Alumni College | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...truth, the College is stuck with seven Houses which it cannot affort to support. They are too luxurious to meet the demands of undergraduates. But the current method of reducing their cost-crowding leads to inferior education as well as discomfort. The new Houses will meet educational requirements by having private studies but eliminate the Common Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Price Gracious Living? | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

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