Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bennett have disagreed over President Reagan's proposed cuts in federal student aid, and over the role of the government in enforcing equal access to educational institutions...
Appropriately, the issue addressed most thoroughly by the Strauch Report is graduate student financial aid. It upholds in strong terms the cornerstones of the present program: departments must offer every incoming student a "need-related" sum above or equal to a minimum level; continuing students are promised at least that income for their second year; admissions (and hence financial aid) policies assume that everyone admitted into a program will graduate. The latter point is especially Important-it marks the difference between Harvard's plan and that of universities where high attrition rates reduce incoming classes by half or more...
Nonetheless, reforms of these problems can only be achieved if students join the committee. In 1978, members of the freshman class temporarily lifted the boycott in order to push for reforms in the CRR. These students made some gains--including public transcripts and an equal student-Faculty balance on the committee. It is time for the classes of '86-'88 to pick up where the class of '81 left...
...remembered with the knowledge that it must never be repeated. To suddenly make this as if it was something that I was doing that was hostile to the people who had suffered in the Holocaust . . . I can never forget what I saw (in the films). Granted, it wasn't equal to the living visits that some had been able to make at that time or those who were the victims. Anyone who went through that--I realize there's no way we can understand the depth of their wound. And we have to realize that, yes, they're going...
Many of the appointees will be replacing officials who have been encouraged to retire by such sweeteners as pensions equal to their salaries, permission to keep their apartments, and the use of government cars. Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang estimates that by next year nearly 2 million bureaucrats will have retired. About 800 top people will be replaced in May and June. And next September, the Communist Party's Central Committee will probably be enlarged to bring in about a hundred younger members. Taking the cue, Party Secretary Hu, 69, has hinted at his choice for his own successor...