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...issue, should, however, transcend these procedural conflicts. The Faculty Council's near-unanimous support for the plan, for example, shows that "the Faculty is committed to incorporating student opinion into the decision-making process," Dean Fox says. In addition, a College-wide referendum in April revealed that 71 per cent of those voting favored the proposal...
...Dowling plan still faces several sticky problems that may stand in the way of implementation. Foremost among these roadblocks may be student apathy. The constitution needs 3200 "yea" votes--a majority of the College--for ratification. Given that only 35 per cent of the undergraduate student body bothered to vote in the April referendum, getting a majority of the College to support the Dowling plan this fall could prove difficult. "People won't vote against the plan--they just won't vote at all," Nancy J. Northrop '81, a member of the Dowling committee, has said...
...they say they are convinced that studies such as the Urban Institute's overlook other key factors. According to Thomas M. Reardon, the University's director of development, the first oversight is economic: Just as taxes will go down, so disposable income will rise. Especially in the 50-per-cent-and-under tax brackets, Reardon insists, this bank balance boost will offset the higher "cost" of contributing to Harvard...
...best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
Violation of Title IX provisions theoretically could result in a cutoff of all federal aid, though that penalty has never been used. About $100 million or 25 per cent, of Harvard's total income in the last fiscal year came from the government