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...Keenan, who travelled to Washington with Parker L. Coddington, the University's director of government relations, said the Reagan administration "may have tried to do too much too fast" in attempting to limit direct aid to college students and to make it harder to receive federal loan guarantees and interest subsidies...
...Keenan and deans from six other universities, including Yale, Princeton, and Stanford, met all day yesterday in Washington with representatives from government agencies and educational lobby groups, concluding that although reductions in student loan guarantees and fellowships may eventually be lessened by Congress, federal support for scientific research and facilities "will be cut left and right...
...tremendous constituency of parents, students, and educators will pressure Congress into doing "little more than nibbling at the edges, while most students will be able to scratch together enough to get to school somehow," Keenan said...
Until Reagan announces his final budget plans on March 10, Keenan and other educators "will remain fearfully in the dark," the dean said, but he added that legislators will be more likely to approve of cuts in research funding if they modify the president's proposals for student...
...Congressmen say to me 'How can I sell this noble project to my constituency at home? and I can't tell them," Keenan explained. He added that the Reagan administration's desire to improve productivity "encourages them to support the hard sciences--engineering--instead of these social science wimps with one blue sock and one brown sock on, but in the long run, that is a mistake...