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LAST WEEK IT became known that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 approved a proposal to bestow University Officer status on an oil-rich Texas couple in return for a $500,000 gift to fund the School's creative and worthy loan forgiveness program. A number of Harvard officials last week dubbed the K-School fund-raising tactics a "loose cannon". In the words of one Harvard official, the K-School "is on the make. They prostitute themselves more." President Bok needs to look into the ways in which money is exchanged for prestige University-wide. Dean Allison...
...memo to K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, White said that Charles C. Dickinson III and Joanne W. Eaton Dickinson are "examples of why we should have a special student tuition for 100K. They are both perpetual students...
According to H. James Brown Jr., a specialistin housing policy who directs the K-School'sState, Local and Intergovernmental Center, cityvoters have reason to worry about high rents andproperty values. He says the housing market of theBoston area is "very much in crisis and muchdifferent than most parts of the country...
...first of three conferences took place last weekend at the K-School's Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy and the two remaining forums will be held in June and September 1988. Kalb declined to discuss last week's meeting, but he said the center will issue a report on the conferences' conclusions next fall...
...K-School forums will also address the problem of the decreasing frequency of press conferences. "FDR held about 47 press conferences a year. Reagan has averaged seven a year. [Thursday night's] press conference was only the third this year." Kalb said, "Unfortunately, the frequency [of press conferences] has gone down quite steadily with each Presidency...