Word: leafleteers
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...Kraus plan also includes contributions from parental and spouse income before figuring student need. The Union's official demand opposes any contributions from these sources, but an explanation in the organization's leaflet circulated last week indicated some flexibility on the issue. "Some Union members would accept an aid plan which required contributions from truly wealthy parents: some are opposed in principle to any parental contributions," the statement said. Nonetheless, the statement said all Union members agree the plan as presently formulated over-taxes the parents of lower-and middle-income GSAS students, and it called upon the Administration...
...Union does not deny that the University has financial problems, but argues that they stem more from its investment policy than any real shortage of funds. The Union leaflet called the policy "extraordinarily conservative," and argued that more interest from the mammoth endowment could be diverted to provide for the needs of graduate students. The Union says that Harvard received $60 million income on its investment portfolio, but only $45 million of this income and none of the capital gains were funneled into operating expenses. The endowment, therefore, grew 8 per cent last year, far out-stripping...
...open letter and a leaflet entitled "Why These Seven Demands" will be sent this week to all Faculty members and undergraduates, outlining the Union's position on Harvard's financial priorities and calling for specific changes in University spending to ease the financial strains in the GSAS...
...leaflet distributed with the reading list criticizes the introductory economics course as "doctrinaire" and calls for giving "the case against capitalism a fair hearing in this course...
Above all, it is important to preserve the principle that all forms of printed communication; from The New York Times to the garbled leaflet of a local lunatic, are equal in their First Amendment rights. Marxists sometimes talk of the significance of "substantive," case-by-case, justice as opposed to the unimportance of a purely formal justice based on principles of equality. But the violation of formal principles, even in seemingly trivial cases, can lead to substantive wrongs in the long run. The principle of discrimination used to brand Mafiarun papers as "sham" one year can be used the next...