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...would argue that the English establishment has merely done a marvelous job of integrating budding student politicos into its ranks. Certainly the Far Left are a sad procession of ghosts on English campuses, and many university student unions are now run by Conservative students elected on 50-60 per cent campus-wide ballots. But the sense of decency and "fair play" can still stir sizeable student numbers to protest--two recent examples being demonstrations against university investments in South Africa (Harvard and the Kennedy School, take note!), and greatly increased overseas students fees...
Chutzpah, it must be added, also applies to the people who planned Leverett's outrageous ticket prices and show schedule. Inflation may be rampant, but charging $3 for a House show is absurd and almost menacing--sort of like Chase Manhattan raising the prime lending rate to 15 per cent overnight. And the schedule, which calls for two shows on one night for each of the three-week run, is almost as bad as asking a pitcher to start both ends of a doubleheader. The show runs a whopping two hours and forty-five minutes, and asking any cast...
Under Carter's proposals, Harvard's tuition figure, taken by itself, would be limited to an 8 1/4 per cent increase in 1979-80--equal to .5 per cent less than the average increase over the last two years. In 1977, tuition rose 8 1/2 per cent, from $4100 to $4450. Last year it rose 9 per cent, from...
...addition, Carter's package proposes a 7 per cent ceiling on salaries. Kaufman said that if this figure is applied as a ceiling on each individual's maximum salary increase, the limit would be "somewhat lower than we were thinking...
...cent limit on tuition] and 7 per cent [limit on salaries] does not impose an enormous hardship," working from what now appear to be the possible effects of the wage and price restrictions, Kaufmann said