Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student attitudes which Mrs. Bunting has heretofore ignored. First, a good many Cliffies have reservations about Mrs. Bunting's plans to make Radcliffe a residential college modeled on the Harvard House plan. With only minimal consultation with undergraduates. Mrs. Bunting has committed herself to a mammoth $7.5 million fund-raising drive to complement a gift from the Ford Foundation for undergraduate dormitory housing. Her plans fail to deal with the vital question of whether girls should be forced to live in the clearly restrictive, prep-school atmosphere of a dormitory, however lavish, rather than in the free environment...
...high proportion of "black" students, I was disappointed that "Courting the Negro" [April 28] neglected to mention the immeasureable wedge of two agencies in opening college doors. Negro students from poverty backgrounds are enrolling in integrated colleges because of the 20-year effort of the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. And the National Achievement Scholarship Program, funded by the Ford Foundation under the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, has uncovered and financed several thousand students in the past few years. Without the talent search of NSSFNS and NASP, the colleges would probably have continued in the various states...
...threat learned in 18 years on Capitol Hill, Louisiana's Russell Long has managed to mire the U.S. Senate in a month-long procedural gumbo. While many more pressing issues clamor for attention, the assistant majority leader has made his ill-conceived, hastily passed 1966 Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act the upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times to repeal it, Long's crusade...
...Senate custom-which dictates that a chairman protect committee bills from outside amendments-and allowed a plethora of fellow Senators' pet projects to be tacked onto the bill. When accused of "hinting" that he was deliberately tying up the tax bill as a strategy to save his Campaign Fund Act, Long boasted: "I did not hint it. I promised it. I promised that would be my course of action...
Ehrensperger could think of two reasons for the Federal fund cutback: the general skimping on domestic welfare projects because of the Vietnam war, and the growing number of colleges applying for funds under the work-study program...