Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the amended version of the bill was bottled up in committee last Tuesday. It certainly did not make the rapid progress which many college administrators, including President Pusey, feared any anti-student bill would make this year...
...Congressmen--two of whom spent some days at Harvard interviewing students. Faculty and Administrators--also voiced strong support for what has come to be known as "university restructuring," to increase the responsiveness of universities to student concerns. The report, which was released just before hearings on the Erlenborn bill began, probably helped to swing some Republican Congressmen on the Green subcommittee against the bill...
...only college-related appropriations bill thus far passed by both houses is that of the NASA. As approved, this bill contained an "anti-riot" amendment first passed with several bills in the last session of Congress. The amendment calls for cutting off aid to any student who has disrupted operation of a college. Determination of what constitutes disruption is, however, left to the colleges, who have not been particularly anxious to enforce the provision. To date, no aid has been cut off under such amendments, although they have been in existence for over a year...
Relieved that nothing stronger had been attached to the NASA bill, one Harvard administrator recently commented, "I think it's a good sign--I hope." Just how good a sign it is, and how long-lived Congress' moderation on campus disturbances is, should be clearer by the time appropriations hearings are over. The final result may depend largely on how strongly the American public as a whole is feeling about "college unrest." If voter sentiment is highly anti-student, Congress--which can be extraordinarily sensitive to public feeling on certain issues--may well throw moderation to the winds, and replace...
...Harvard has never, been behind after the first minute of any race this year, and it was keeping its polished sprint in reserve to insure it. With 550 yards remaining, coxswain Bill Terranova raised the cadence, and exploding, the Crimson opened the margin to three-quarters of a length, not only holding the Argonauts" 41, but negating it. The winning time was exactly seven minutes...