Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the anti-trust division at the justice Department talks, people listen.
Justice Department officials say the schools, mostly "elite" northern colleges, may be illegally sharing information about tuition and financial aid. As a result, they say, the schools may be able to unfairly inflate tuition costs.
One possible reason: Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh has reportedly encouraged the investigation because he saw "waste" at Harvard, where he was head of the Institute of Politics for the year before being named to his justice Department post.
The possible sharing of information has become a focal point in recent weeks as the Justice Department continues to widen a probe into alleged price-fixing by universities in setting tuitions, student financial aid and faculty salaries.
But the response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already...