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...Colorado charged last week that Government officials created a job for Gretchen Thomas. She is the wife of a former Meese aide who made a $15,000 loan to the Presidential Counsellor's wife that Meese failed to disclose. Thomas' employer: the San Francisco office of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which is supposed to guard against favoritism in the hiring and promotion of Government employees. Schroeder demanded that Board Chairman Herbert Ellingwood resign...
...surprising that only three incidents have come to light: almost none of the victims lodged formal complaints, the survey found. Many said they feared reprisals, or worried that the University would be unreceptive to their case, or did not know where to complain. Did Harvard find merit in any of the few charges it received, and take measures against the offender? That's an absolute secret, according to official policy. (The three known cases were publicized by the victims and their friends...
...students without regard to need. Southern Methodist University offers four years of free tuition (value: $30,000) to students who meet a series of criteria, including SAT scores of 1320 or higher. Trinity University in San Antonio offers as much as $20,000 over four years to National Merit scholars. Trinity attracted ten finalists in 1981, had 54 in 1983, and as of last week had promises from 124 out of a class of 600 for next fall. Is Trinity buying students? Says Admissions Dean Rudolph Gaedke: "We play hardball, but so does everyone else...
...prospective student confessing that another college has offered a better package. Says Behnke: "Sometimes the student will be asked to send in copies of the financial arrangement offered by the competing college so Tufts can study it and meet the competition." Smaller schools that cannot afford to give many merit scholarships tend to lose out in such contests. Says President Patsy Sampson of Stephens College, a Missouri women's school with an enrollment of 1,100: "Many times we recruit outstanding students who have no financial need, but another college will offer them a substantial scholarship and literally...
Consumers Union's victory has cost several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. Even so, if the Consumers Union decision helps weed out libel actions of little merit, the public interest will have been served. Said Consumers Union Executive Director Rhoda Karpatkin: "Our determination to go to the wall on this case rather than settle it anywhere along the way has been vindicated...