Word: aids
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Peter K. Gunness '57, director of the Financial Aid Office, said yesterday that Federal funds given to Harvard as National Defense Education Act loans, Educational Opportunity grants, and the work-study payments are likeely to be cut by about $200,000 from this year's total of $1,6 million...
Gunness recently returned from Washington, D.C., where he conferred with officials of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on the Federal aid program. Funds for these programs were sliced in the economy-minded budget for fiscal 1970 submitted by the outgoing Johnson Administration...
Though they may place a strain on the University's budget, the decreases in Federal aid are not likely to affect students here greatly, Gunness said. "We'll find alternative sources of funds. "We'll work it out somehow," he said...
...used to fill informational needs within the university. Students use grades to obtain feedback from their instructors on performance in class. Faculty members use grades from previous courses use grades from previous courses as guidelines for admitting students to their own course. The administration uses grades in allocating financial aid. Although we object to this last use of grades we do feel that information on student performance can be useful both to the student and to the teacher in the education process. The use of a summary letter grade is simply not the best means for fulfilling such informational needs...
Students can aid Biafra in four ways, said the Harvard supporters: by collecting money door-to-door in the suburbs, by addressing envelopes for mail appeals, by organizing church relief efforts in home communities over the vacation, and by conducting drives to increase the relief efforts of the government...