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Once students of the 1980's arrive on campus the separation is barely evident. Gone are the days when women were barred from Widener and forced to sit in the hall in order to audit all-male courses. Today men and women live together, attend classes together, and participate together in the same extracurriculars...
...Carter Cabinet officials such as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall courted Jackson and invited him to apply for grants. "These federal agencies came to Jesse and threw money at him and at PUSH," recalls Doug Ponci, an official in the audit office of the Department of Education, another agency that sponsored Jackson. "It just overwhelmed them...
Other shuttle engineers have expressed similar concerns. A former Rockwell quality-assurance engineer says that an audit he conducted of Rockwell's shuttle hardware and software last July revealed that only 12% met NASA's contract specifications. The day after submitting his report, he contends, his supervisor told him that "we had to change the figure to 96% or better." He refused. Five weeks later he was suspended and then later fired...
Intelsat began getting suspicious a year ago, when Charles Gerrell, an Arkansas mortgage broker who was later convicted with Colino of conspiracy to commit fraud, demanded payment of a commission for arranging a construction loan. A spot internal audit discovered that no such payment was due. Further auditing by Peat Marwick revealed other oddities. In early December 1986, on his return from a jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power...
...addition, a 1986 audit of the FAS physical plant found that each of its 242 buildings is in need of renovations. Administrators estimate cost of the repairs in the hundreds of millions. An added problem is that the exteriors of much of the property cannot be altered because the structures are historical landmarks...