Word: maintained
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Beset by shortages of funds, the nation's colleges are finding special programs for minorities increasingly difficult to maintain. Not only are the costs and the legality of many minority-helping programs receiving new scrutiny, but there is a new uncertainty over their educational justification. Where once it seemed a school's moral duty to admit disadvantaged applicants, now the failure to discriminate between qualified and unqualified members of minority groups is widely denounced as harmful to the students, as well as to education generally. Where once it seemed crucial for previously all-white universities to bolster blacks...
...maintain or renew a visa, a student may not hold a full-time job and must be enrolled in a full-time educational program. John Russell, a Justice Department spokesman, said Thursday students who violate these conditions may now face immediate deportation proceedings instead of warnings...
Standing on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, a white Louisiana Cajun in a powder blue suit struggled to maintain a faint smile. Reporters barraged him with questions; an angry black woman glowered at him. It was all slightly overwhelming for Brian Weber, 32, a man who says he wants nothing more than to be a general repairman at a Louisiana chemical factory. But to many people Weber personifies the sticky question of reverse discrimination. He had come to the unfamiliar setting of the nation's high court to hear oral arguments in a case, Kaiser...
...report released in January 1971 the committee listed several propositions it considered "basic, if not axiomatic" in examining university-corporate relations. Because the University is foremost a "center of free inquiry," the committee stated, it should maintain a neutral stance on political and social matters except those "where there is no longer room for argument among people who accept our basic socio-economic political system." One such unarguable issue, the committee stated was racism. Harvard adopted an official position of "hostility (whether in the University's role as center of learning, contractor, employer, or investor) to anything smacking of racism...
...Bernard Herlihy, pastor of St. Peter's parish, which controls the building, told the council Monday that the city had failed to maintain the building. "They were supposed to do repairs under the lease," Herlihy said...