Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IN a day when higher education is big business, when "prestigious" diplomas mean as much as they ever have, and financial scandals seemingly touch almost all the nation's most respected institutions, it does not seem too much to press harder for open information from the schools themselves. If they...
Speaking of indigestion, the Harvard Dining Services (HDS) was playing the chameleon last week. After an especially unpalatable sequence of meals, a student mutiny hung in the air. But suddenly HDS scored a victory in the experimental cuisine department, and the masses were appeased.
IN accepting the incomplete reports on the facts unearthed by and the motives of the Justice Department probe, the staff is falling under the spell created by the political grandstanding of the Bush Administration. This probe is yet another effort to attack relatively unimportant issues while avoiding the innumerable problems...
Most important, if the Justice Department finds that these schools have violated the Anti-Trust Act--a conclusion that is likely given the government's need to produce results since it has so far only spouted rhetoric--it will simply demand an end to such practices without allowing for a...
The staff ignores this inevitable effect when it dismisses the financial aid issue as irrelevant to the investigation. If the department deregulates the education industry, it will leave schools to compete for top students by offering higher and higher aid awards, rather than setting those awards according to need. By...