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...Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), which is distributed to students by individual colleges, and to the College Work Study Program, which provides federally-subsidized jobs for college students. Finally, the plan would liberalize the Guaranteed Student Loan Program so that all students would be eligible for federally-subsidized low-interest loans no matter what their income level...
...National Guaranteed Student Loan program which provides federally-subsidized loans to students at an interest rate of only 3 per cent. This mix-up stemmed from the academic year 1976-77 when NGSL funds were denied to freshmen men so Harvard would have enough NDSL funds to continue the low-interest loans to upperclassmen. Radcliffe had plenty of NDSL money for all undergraduate women, but a number of freshmen women thought they too were ineligible and did not apply for the loans. When it was too late, administrators realized that Radcliffe would not be able to spend...
...talented applicant from minority backgrounds. The College admits about 17 per cent of all those who apply. Therefore, for every six applicants, about five must be rejected, even though four might be "admissible" judging by their talents. In short, if the pool of talented "admissable" minority applicants is low, minority admissions will suffer...
...College over the last ten years. What remains to be seen is whether Harvard's cautious approach, based on the ideal of "diversity" will make further significant progress. On one side, "diversity" offers no guarantee that percentages of minorities in the College will not fall below their current low levels while on the other side it offers no protection against covert quota-setting...
...grand juries and U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, Investigators in Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso documented $100,000 worth of fraudulent GSA overpayments after just two weeks of auditing last month. In Bayonne, N.J., investigators have discovered a construction contract that was first awarded to an extremely low bidder for just over $1 million and then was upped substantially in a suspicious change of project plans. In Chicago, a ring of thieves looted the GSA of furniture and office equipment. In New Orleans, the investigation centers on a scheme of multiple payments for building-repair and maintenance work never...