Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later in the week, financial aid officers said that only Army ROTC, which accomodates 20 of the 90 Harvard students participating in the program, grants less money to students without on campus units...
...University ban on competitive boxing will prevent the Harvard Boxing Club from hosting a charity match to raise money to aid African athletes, the club's co-captain said yesterday...
...that's at stake here. After all, the council's vaguely-worded constitution also prohibits what it terms "economic discrimination." And surely the current arrangement constitutes a violation of this principle: Harvard students enrolled in the Army branch of the ROTC program receive only 80 percent of the aid that their counterparts at MIT and other campuses do, and receive this aid for only three years instead of the full four...
Thus, the University already is involved in "economic discrimination" against students who are on ROTC. Moreover, the Pentagon is now considering making the amount of aid that students involved in the Navy and Air Force branches receive conditional on whether their schools sponsor ROTC on campus...
...coerced" into taking an academic program whose validity is questionable. But most of the courses they must take (Physics, International Relations, Military Strategy) are already accorded academic legitimacy by several departments here. Moreover, plenty of other scholarship programs give money on the condition that the students who receive this aid will take courses in specific fields...