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Alfonsin resisted the fund because he feared that traditional belt tightening, though necessary in narrow economic terms, would lead to hunger, widespread poverty and dangerous political instability. He could cite some disturbing precedents. Jamaica's last two elections, in 1980 and 1983, were precipitated by IMF-imposed austerity. Haiti's long-suffering populace, the hemisphere's poorest, erupted in riots last month after years of hardship under fund programs...
...first time in many years, varsity athletics set the campus on fire. In the past four years, several men's and women's teams snagged championships, converting hundreds of undergraduates known for the relative lack of enthusiasm into wildly cheering fans. Many seniors cite athletic events as their most vivid Harvard memories--including the victory over Yale in the hundredth edition of The Game to snag a part of the Ivy Title, and the heartbreaking loss to the Penn football team on a last second field goal...
Other looming issues Fellows cite also revolve around money. These include the skyrocketing costs of health care and how it will affect the Medical School and Harvard's affiliated hospitals. A related problem is the increasingly high cost of equipping professors, especially scientists. It costs $1 million to endow a professorship at Harvard, but a scientist's lab equipment may cost more than that...
Nevertheless, murmurs among some group members betray a harslier view of Harvard's Black hiring record. Some hint that it was the University "foot dragging" that spurred them to action, and the principal success of the group that many members cite privately is the shift of discussion on affirmative action from the realm of governmentally imposed technicalities to that of pragmatic planning...
Many critics of the system cite this financial aid structure as a major problem, since it virtually forces a grad student to instruct undergraduates, regardless of his teaching ability...