Word: meyerson
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...interest, the exact amount to be determined by a complex formula based on how well the firm performs over the next two years. As the firm's new president, Perot has installed one of the Texas-born vice presidents of his computer firm, 32-year-old Morton Meyerson...
Even though the cuts are still relatively modest, they have incensed Penn's dean of admissions and financial aide, George A. Schlekat, 33, himself a full-scholarship student at Penn twelve years ago. Last week Schlekat resigned in protest, calling the policy "suicidal." Penn President Martin Meyerson is tightening up sharply in other areas besides scholarships; he is seeking to save by imposing a ban on new faculty hiring. But Schlekat argues that the administration could have made further sacrifices to help needy students, particularly in the university's "rather grand research facilities." Schlekat is certain that...
Schlekat and Meyerson agree that the long-range solution is more federal aid for colleges, but that is hardly close at hand. Neither, in fact, is heterogeneity in U.S. higher education. Despite all the recent efforts to enroll minority-group students, a forthcoming report by the Ford Foundation says that the number of black students will have to increase by 116% before black and white America have the same proportion of their children in college. For other minorities the gap is still more dramatic. If they are to pull abreast of whites, enrollment of Puerto Ricans will have to grow...
...more discriminating. Gone are the big smoke-ins punctuated by acid rock and strobe lights. The smoking is done in small groups of friends, and the aim is not an easy high but a better understanding of self. Indeed, for many students, says Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Pennsylvania, "any concern beyond the self tends to be regarded as too luxurious...
...action is less because of the Federal Government pressing us, but more because of the humanness that universities stand for," said Pennsylvania president Martin Meyerson. "We should be concerned not just with half of humanity, but with...