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...question now is which aid package will eventually become law. Either option involves the largest one-time increase in federal aid to education since 1956; both packages carry about a $1.5 billion price tag. Clearly the aid bills are too expensive to enable both of them to pass, but Capitol Hill aides say Congress might pass both bills anyway and leave the choice up to President Carter...
LAST SPRING, despite the largest outpouring of student political sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponsor shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...
...largest fund drive for athletics in Harvard's history. At a time when universities were becoming increasingly worried over fund-raising prospects, Harvard in 1974 launched a $30-million drive to fund the Soldiers Field Athletic Complex. A fund drive pamphlet quotes one Ivy League administrator's opinions of Harvard's move...
While the hockey team will feel the largest effect of the fund-drive failure this year, basketball will probably be hurt most by the cutbacks in the original athletic complex plan. The IAB basketball arena pales in comparison to a nice high school facility...
...largest challenge facing University officials and attorneys this fall is the appeal of the DEQE decision prohibiting the generators. In the Oct. 16 appeal hearing, Hearing Officer Ellyn Weiss will review the DEQE decision and other evidence presented by Harvard, the DEQE, and neighborhood groups opposed to the power plant. The selection of Weiss--a former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts who now has a private practice in Washington, D.C.--was in itself something of a victory for Harvard. University attorneys claimed earlier this year that the original hearing officer, Assistant State Atty. Gen. Charles Corkin, Jr., was biased against...