Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, the guest list has grown larger and less manageable. Increasing numbers of arriving foreigners have been fluent in Chinese and thus able to bypass the guided tour and the official interpreter. The result has been growing alarm in Peking over the depth of personal contact, which could lead to what the Chinese press decries as "spiritual opium," meaning corruption from abroad. Two years ago, officials were stunned and alarmed by the case of Steven Mosher, 34, a Stanford University graduate student who lived for nine months in a commune in Guangdong province. Mosher collected extensive interviews, photographed thousands...
Some scholars are already suffering as a result of Peking's alarm. Foreign students in Chinese universities, for instance, have lately found that once friendly Chinese classmates avoid them. Relations be tween foreign teachers and Chinese stu dents have similarly cooled. At a Peking university, foreign students gained official permission to hold a dance, but their Chinese companions, meanwhile, were quietly warned not to attend. In another school, an American student invited to dinner at the home of a Chinese classmate was asked to "come rather late and wear dark clothing so nobody will notice that a foreigner...
...alarm sparked a lobbying movement unified and powerful enough to take both educators and congressional aides by surprise. Busloads of students and sacks of letters poured into the capital, university presidents testified before congressional committees and argued with Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell behind closed doors. Financial aid officials who once predicted the necessity of rolling back aid blind admissions and scraping together alternative loan plans this year now note, albeit cautiously, that congressional delays have made it almost inconceivable that sizeable cuts could take effect before October, when next year's final aid and loan applications...
Given the boost, College officials--even those who maintain there is still more cause for alarm than complacency--sound positively sanguine about the short-term dollar outlook for the fall. Long threatened more by what L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, calls "erosion of fixed incomes" than by specific cuts, Harvard can hope for an easing of aid pressure as the inflation rate inches down; if the pattern continues, the income on the endowment may once again be able to keep pace with costs. The admissions office also stands to gain from the Harvard Campaign...
...attend college. Interpreting the drop as a communications gap--students from working-class backgrounds wrongly assumed they could not afford Harvard and eliminated themselves from the applicant pool without finding out that Harvard had maintained its aid-blind policy--Fitzsimmons echoes the its aid-blind policy--Fitzsimmons echoes the alarm voiced by the Coalition for Student Aid (CSA), a newly formed student group to combat the cuts threat...