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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supporting closer relations between West and East, Brandt said, "I believe there is no reasonable alternative to the policy of detente. Detente is not a dirty word...

Author: By Ginger A. Aron, | Title: Brandt Lectures at MIT On World Change, Peace | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...Faculty Council yesterday moved one step closer to approving a series of minority student committee proposals for the reorganization of minority recruitment and admissions at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in an hour-long question-and-answer session with representatives of the student group...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Faculty Council Quizzes Group On GSAS Minority Admissions | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...since last March) to attend the first round of the playoffs, two out of Brown, RPI and Providence will suffer a setback, the Crimson will win and finish seventh, and next Tuesday night will be spent in Durham, N.H., which, by any stretch of the imagination, is a lot closer than either Potsdam or Ithaca, N.Y., and a lot more rural than B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena. (Hockey games in rural settings are the greatest...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skating on Thin Ice | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...when tuition, room and board fees will total a whopping $7000. The administration claims that fee increases are necessary to keep up with the galloping price rises that a University, like any other consumer, faces. To a certain extent their claims are valid; prices are unquestionably rising. But a closer examination of the relevant facts proves that placing the blame for increasing college costs wholly on OPEC, government grant cutbacks and inflation is the easy way out for the administration. A University committed, as Harvard claims it is, to seeking a diverse student body should strive to limit the economic...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Students in the Red | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

...administration's persistence in directly linking inflation and tuition increases deserves closer scrutiny. Inflation over the last five years averaged about 6 per cent annually, while student fees have seen an average annual increase of nearly 8 per cent since 1973. (The 8 per cent Massachusetts meal tax was implemented during this period, but it contributed only slightly to the increase...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Students in the Red | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

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