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...more than specific policies must change if Harvard hopes to improve the quality of life for disabled undergraduates. The University must establish a central office designed to improve communication with handicapped students and make a general commitment to assign greater priority to their needs. Until the attitudes of University officials change, disabled students will remain excluded from full participation in the Harvard community...
...Leadership: Of course, deficiencies in working-class consciousness could always be made up for by vigorous, enlightened leadership--a role that Bluestone and Harrison want to assign to the unions. But most union leaders are running scared themselves, trying to sell their shrinking memberships on wage concessions in order to protect vanishing jobs. Indeed, after the United Steelworkers' rank and file did raise its voice, rejecting a proposed give back contract, union leaders cut back the role of rank-and-file representatives in collective bargaining...
...events: the Veterans Memorial. Three years ago, Labor Department Bureaucrat Jan Scruggs, a former Army corporal, decided that he and his fellow Viet Nam veterans needed palpable, permanent recognition in Washington, their own monument in the city of monuments. His Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Fund (V.V.M.F.) persuaded Congress to assign them two acres on the Mall, got 500,000 donors to give $7 million and managed to attract 1,421 entries to a professionally judged design competition. V.V.M.F. wanted a "reflective and contemplative" memorial with an "emphasis ... on those who died"-including a display of their names-and "without political...
Advocates of complete decriminalization argue that the court system places an unfair portion of the blame for misbehavior on the child while simultaneously according him too little responsibility for amending his own faults. Seeking to improve on the current procedure, several programs have arisen which assign blame and input alike to the child and filer of the CHINS petition...
...over the question of cost accountability. Faculty senates of more than 20 universities passed resolutions opposing Circular A21, a directive from the Office of Management and Budget that demands "effort reporting," the documentation of how teachers spend their time while receiving federal funds. Many researchers argue that they cannot assign precise percentages to the time they spend in the classroom, lab or office. Last March, Yale declined a $30,000 federal grant because its proposed recipient, Mathematics Professor Serge Lang, would not prepare or sign an effort report, although he would certify that the money had been properly spent...