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OTHER UNION DEMANDS center around the immediate issues raised by the Kraus plan itself. The plan established a student need criterion and promises to found first-and second-year students to within $1000 of their calculated need. The $1000 gap could be closed by merit-based grants, which would be awarded by departmental prerogative. The Union is objecting to both the retention of merit-based grants and certain aspects of the need criteria...
...deliver a 7.6-oz. magazine to its readers. Two copies distributed for a nickel -the greatest bargain in power since the Tennessee Valley Authority. A steal? Postal authorities think so, and they say that it is time to stop the ripoff. So, in addition to increasing the cost of first-and third-class mail, they are currently escalating second-class (magazine and newspaper) rates by an average 127% over five years (see THE PRESS). If a raise anywhere near that size takes effect, nickel power will end-and with it, a profound phase of American history...
...being known as a one-issue candidate because of his early and unequivocal opposition to the war. But in putting together his first primary victory of 1972 in Wisconsin, he plainly attracted voters to whom the state of the economy is a more pressing concern. Moreover, he was the first-and is still the most thorough-of the candidates to lay out detailed position papers on such other issues as tax reform and defense spending. Not much attention was paid to the McGovern papers at first, since he did not seem a likely winner...
...down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second-string quarterbacks, a linebacker, a tight end, the game (by a score of 48-27) and considerable face. One disconsolate Longhorn fan moans: "Them Oklahoma boys was meaner'n seven hunnerd elves...
There was some opposition among the faculty to the first motion which provided for an after-the-fact review of grades by the First-and Second-Year Subcommittees as a check on the consistent application of academic standards...