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Harvard, which prides itself on making athletics and academics work together hand-in-hand, has now gone a step further. The Coach-Faculty and Intramurals Subcommittee of the Faculty's Standing Committee on Athletics issued open invitations to all faculty members for the October 28 Harvard-Princeton football game.
But wait. The term "unethical bidding war"--really the crux of the public-good argument--deserves a strong airing out. First assume its validity. How does the protection of undergraduate financial aid justify the possibility that schools collude in setting faculty labor costs together, a separate issue involving separate individuals...
The immediate legal problem can be seen in an analogy to gas stations. Say the stations with the best gas in town all decide on gas prices, and also on the discount they give preferred (even "needy") customers. Further, the practice raises the question of whether the service station owners...
THE Defense. No one has considered academic collegiality in the same league as business combinations since the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed in 1890. Obviously education holds a special place in American society, and the pursuit of knowledge essential to a democracy has no readily tangible--or easily comparable...
The House proposal brought a swift protest from U.S. carmakers, who contended that the clean-air standards would raise car prices and strain technical resources. The companies argued that auto exhaust is already 96% cleaner than it was before pollution-control measures were introduced two decades ago. Noting that the...