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Healy said that since the program is statewide, any action to curtail benefits or modify it in any way would have to come from the state legislature...
Although the new regulations raise the minimum standard for cum laude in General Studies from a B-to a B, they were not designed to curtail the number of honors degrees awarded annually. Through some statistical mystery, the slight tightening of requirements is expected to translate into several more honors degrees each year...
Although the new regulations raise the minimum standard for cum laude in General Studies from a B-to a B, they were not designed to curtail the number of honors degrees awarded annually. Through some statistical mystery, the slight lightening of requirements is expected to translate into several more honors degrees each year...
...very important ideas. First, total divestiture as a moral statement is impractical--students can't and won't boycott the constellation of major corporations doing business in South Africa Second, the expansion of Harvard's endowment is nothing to scott at in calling for divestiture. Do proponents propose to curtail funds available for financial aid and University program at a time when the federal government is threatening to severely cut of necessary budget cuts across the board (in my personal opinion regrettably short-changing America's investment in its youths' higher education), the Corporation must bear endowment in mind. Thirdly...
...Administration's various efforts to curtail the drug trade have by no means been fruitless. The amount of cocaine seized in the U.S. has increased thirtyfold since 1977, and the wholesale price of a kilo of coke in Miami has jumped from $23,000 to $35,000 in the past six months. In one two-week period a month ago, Florida authorities confiscated over two tons of the drug, more than was seized by all federal agents in 1981. But the record amounts of cocaine intercepted may only serve to prove that there are record amounts of cocaine pouring into...