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COURTS have also been predictably unreliable in pay equity cases. In California, a federal judge recently dismissed a California State Employees' Association's claim that jobs held mostly by women paid less than comparable jobs held by men. That case involved 60,000 workers. A similar case was dismissed in Michigan...
Unfortunately, it's too much even to take the universities' ethical claim of avoiding a "bidding war" at face value. First use common sense. When setting financial aid packages together, the overlap group of schools is plainly more likely to decide on a lower award, not a higher one. The whole point of meeting is of course to save money...
...institutions of higher education so long accustomed to enshrouding themselves in the most liberal, democratic traditions, can no longer say that "more is better" when it comes to money, and yet in the next breath claim that it is not an issue necessary for discussion...
...question is, Does any of this work? In Georgia, where boot camps were invented in 1983, boosters claim that it costs only $3,400 to house and revamp one inmate in 90 days, in contrast to the $15,000 annual bill for housing a prisoner in the state penitentiary. Boot camps provide one unquestioned benefit: they get the youthful offenders off the street and give them a taste of the debasement of prison life while offering them a startling "one last chance" to straighten...
...traditionally "political" topic of divestment centers on the same underlying issue: the administration's unilateral mode of decision-making and its refusal to listen to opposing views. This is not to claim that the plights of Harvard students and of South African Blacks are similar. Rather, it is to say that Harvard's governing bodies and administrators are equally willing to ignore the concerns of both groups in the interest of convenience...