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...rarely minces words. In both affluent America and impoverished Africa, he has made it clear there will be no Vatican compromise in the ban on artificial birth control. Last week, however, John Paul sat intently listening in the Vatican's starkly modern Synodal Hall as an equally forthright churchman declared that the present church policy simply is not working...
Armerding fears some future court battle over the school's forthright policy of religious discrimination, since Wheaton consistently excludes atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and, indeed, any non-Christian teachers or students. So far the college has escaped Washington's wrath because it gets no federal or state aid for either capital or operating costs. But its students receive $4 million a year in Government grants, loans and loan guarantees. Since two-thirds of Wheaton's revenues are from tuition and fees, "it would be difficult, if not impossible, to replace" such student aid, says Admissions Director Stuart...
...fact, Huggins adds, that may have been the overriding factor in his final decision to come. "I felt if I said no, what as I discerned as a genuine, forthright commitment by the president and the dean would've gone by the boards, that it really would've taken the wind out of the sails of the department here," he explains. Had that occurred, Huggins says, "the consequences for the field would have been unfortunate. Harvard makes a difference because of the way the institution is viewed...
...years to compile its 138-page report, the first in-depth examination of interracial contact in a college environment. The student-Faculty committee, chaired by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, issued forth pages of recommendations, all aimed at making the College, in the committee's words, "more forthright in expressing its support for the minority presence at Harvard and the necessity of good race relations on campus...
...years to compile its 138-page report, the first in-depth examination of interracial contact in a college environment. The student-Faculty committee, chaired by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, issued forth pages of recommendations, all aimed at making the College, in the committee's words, "more forthright in expressing its support for the minority presence at Harvard and the necessity of good race relations on campus...