Word: leveler
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...stressed enough--there is a total absence of any facilities for social and intellectual get-togethers on the level of the undergraduate house system," explains Lee Smolin, a graduate student in Physics and a GSC member. GSC members will look for a center on campus this summer, and hope to arrange GSAS intramural sports next year as another attempt to foster community spirit...
...March 1867, James A. Garfield, then a Congressman from Ohio, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to create a United States Department of Education--an organ without Cabinet-level status. For the next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child...
...days ahead, when legislation to create a Cabinet-level Department of Education--H. R. 13778--is debated on the floor of the House, the long and uncertain history of the educational establishment may reach a watershed. Similar legislation--S. 991--moved quickly through the Senate earlier this year, eventually passing by an overwhelming 72-21 margin. In the House, the legislation leaped over its biggest obstacle last month, when it squeaked by the House Government Operations Committee on a 21-20 vote. Parker Cottington, spokesman for Harvard's Office of Government and Community Relations, which has gone on record against...
Essentially, the legislation would consolidate more than 300 Federal education programs administered by approximately 40 agencies into one unit with Cabinet-level jurisdiction and power. Many of the controversial parts of the bill--portions which advocate Department of Education control over Head Start, child nutrition and American Indian education programs, for example--were eliminated from this year's version. Alfred Sumberg, executive director of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) says the legislation is "not watered down, but realistic in terms of what's possible." Nevertheless, lobbying on the bills has been intense and a great deal of money...
...those in school are in the minority," says Ylvisaker, adding that the national feeling towards education is unfavorable. Current government spending problems and reordering of national priorities threaten, as one longtime observer puts it, "to once again leave education out in the cold." The battle over a Cabinet-level Department of Education is no mere bureacratic reshuffling; the proposal and its advocates and opponents stretch from the inner sanctum of the Oval Office to Longfellow Hall at Harvard's Ed School...