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Previous plans left most funding to the chairmen's discretion, and merit was the sole criterion for financial aid. Other plans had used need criteria to determine aid for teaching fellows only, but had awarded them enough to cover tuition plus living expenses. The Kraus plan evaluated teaching students in the same category as non-teachers--salaries counted as "resources" and were figured into the need estimate...
...result, department chairmen reacted to the plan with predictable anxiety. Because the Kraus plan's need criteria cut into their freedom to recruit and encourage the most "meritorious" applicants and students, the chairmen warned that such students might be lured away to Yale or Berkeley, where merit scholarships still rule graduate student financing. In short, they warned that the quality of graduate education was at stake. Nonetheless, department chairmen agreed unanimously to adopt the Kraus plan on a trial basis only for next year...
Student objections, like those of department chairmen, centered on the plan's need criteria--but for opposite reasons. Their argument sounded generally like this...
...worthwhile noting in this regard that by Berger's criteria, the president could be constitutionally impeached if he continued to bomb Cambodia after the Congress passed a law forbidding...
...system as it is presently constituted has one basic flaw which will keep it generating disappointed crops of students year after year. This flaw is the quota system. Under the quota system, individuals' House preferences are ignored if they don't fit into the right criteria concerning high school background, area of concentration, and rank in class...