Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems are numerous and identifiable; the solutions to them are not. For City Manager Sullivan, the politics of confrontation is one answer. "They are increasingly going to find themselves in court," Sullivan says. Others say a little bending on both sides would help the situation, "I don't agree that the University is 100 per cent to blame," Crane said recently. "Some city councilors, for political reasons, would rather see a war than a peace. They University is an easy target for them," he adds...
...faculty resolutions and student petitions that reflect the views of many persons with little time or special competence to judge the issues." But should moral judgments be made by specialists? As citizens of the University community do not the faculty and students have the right and the duty to help make those decisions...
University administrators are particularly concerned with making a Harvard education available to middle-income students. Upper income families have always been able to provide for themselves, and universities and the government have often tried to help poorer students obtain educations, but the class now defined by income levels between $20,000 and $50,000 has largely been ignored. Harvard's attempts to ease the burden on the middle class rely on a combination of loans and student employment. Administrators are now encouraging middle-and lower-income students to help themselves by seeking jobs of their own, chiefly through the expanding...
...cent interest, as opposed to the 7 per cent Harvard charges on its own loans. Across the nation, NDSL has been plagued by students defaulting on their loans, and Congress dislikes the program. Nor did a 60 Minutes expose of the NDSL's problems in the fall help its reputation. Next year, Harvard will receive $440,000 in NDSL funds, 26 per cent less than this year's allotment. However, Radcliffe will get more because this year's allocation was unnaturally small, after Radcliffe failed to loan out all the 1977-78 funds. Martha C. Lyman, director of financial...
...going to miss my work, but I figure it'll help me for the next 25 years," Forman, who plans to take American history and expository writing courses, said yesterday...