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...anxious to put the brakes on projects which would unnecessarily drain professorial and planning manpower away from Cambridge. "I don't think we'd do such a good job if we took on the role of operating an institution so far away once it is planned and built," he says...
White Money. The two most frequently cited causes for the decline of the black press are economics and the brain drain. "The black press today must mostly depend on white advertising," says Psychologist Nathan Hare, former publisher of the militant intellectual magazine Black Scholar. "But it is very difficult to make money and be a voice for black revolution." A National Urban League study of the black press reports that "in 1974 black media received less than 1% of the $13.6 billion in advertising agency billings." With the recent recession hitting their thinly capitalized black advertisers especially hard, even...
...true much longer. In spite of the notable recent upgrading of such already fine schools as Howard and Morehouse College, two-thirds of the 800,000 black college students, including many of the brightest, are now attending white institutions. Distinguished black professors have also joined the "brain drain," and as a result, some of the nation's 120 black colleges and universities are in jeopardy. Generally committed to accepting the financially strapped graduates of inadequate secondary schools, they are now hard pressed to enroll more qualified black students, to improve their faculty and to attract precious research grants...
...drain is clogged with hair...
...letter to the White House, Mr. Rademacher expressed his fear that without a substantial postal subsidy, "the postal establishment is going down the drain." That echoes the concern of the chairman of the House Postal Service Subcommittee, James Hanley (D., N.Y.), who in a recent insertion in the Congressional Record said that those who continue to be against public service subsidies "will either purposefully or inadvertently lead the Postal Service to ruin...