Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempting open clause in PBHA's new by-laws empower the Cabinet, by majority vote, to take stands on issues which it considers to be of concern to the whole House. The Cabinet should clearly help families articulate and organize against a program such as the Inner Belt. Without organized pressure the Belt will probably run through neighborhoods where PBHA works without amply relocating the families. But if officers indiscriminately decide to give PBHA ideological stands on University, city, and national issues, the organization's political awareness could become self-destructive. Since only "insubstantial" political action is allowed charitable organizations...
DESPITE the President's promise in his Education Message last Monday to "eliminate race and income as barriers to higher learning," the budget does not provide a substantial increase in student aid. The U.S. Office of Education will receive an additional 112 million dollars to help students, but Johnson wants more than half of this increase to be used for interest and other payments under his "guaranteed loan program." Frugal congressmen may ignore the President's recommendation that banks receive a service charge of 35 dollars for the cost of paper work involved in administering the plan, since it seems...
Peter K. Gunness, Director of Financial Aid, says that "there is a great deal of frustration among those of us concerned with student assistance" because "everyone who can help solve the problem assumes that someone else will...
...keep them in balance with the rising student need. Private foundations have stopped funding programs like the National Merit Scholarships, which the Ford Foundation sponsored in the past, so that they can concentrate on research. State governments have generally assumed that the federal government will provide the necessary help; those that do have aid programs either do not fund them or require that students use the aid at state universities...
...also critical of reading courses that use a mechanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds once the pacer is not there to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader's hand is used as a pacer...