Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bennett has never been a favorite with higher education leaders for his often fruitless attempts to cut federal funding of student aid. The former education secretary further aroused their ire earlier this year when he attacked Stanford University for yielding to the demands of vocal student groups that it change its Western Culture program to a course emphasizing non-Western cultures and ideas...
...power of the media is immense. Yet it is disturbing to think that the press has the power to manipulate our personal moral consciousnesses. A few years ago, the news broadcasts were filled with haunting clips of sick, starving Ethiopians. The outpouring of aid at the time was tremendous, mostly due to the massive amounts of publicity the famine received...
...later, when drought and famine were again ravaging this small African country, the aid was not nearly as generous nor as widespread. The only difference was that the second time, famine was not a "hot" news item and received almost no media attention. It's hard to decide where the fault lies, with the media for being too worried about attracting readers with hot news, or with society for not being consistent in its attention...
...disagree, as several legislators did, with the efficacy of provisions allowing the death penalty or cutting off student aid and other federal benefits to those convicted of drug use. But congressional attempts to move the much-ballyhooed "war on drugs" from rhetoric to a coherent policy should be encouraged, not ridiculed. To immediately denounce such attempts as election-year pandering only serves to undermine an important piece of legislation that should instead be debated on its merits...
Speaking at Adams House on Sunday, Guernsey cited some alarming statistics, talked about student opportunities to aid the homeless and spoke about future worsening of homelessness, should George Bush be elected...