Word: minnesota
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Talk was strong on Capitol Hill, too. Wisconsin's Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson deplored "an alarming trend in this country toward the use of police-state tactics." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy introduced a resolution asking for a "select committee" to probe CIA. McCarthy's proposal drew support from Nelson and William Fulbright, but at week's end congressional leaders turned thumbs down on a probe, arguing that there was enough surveillance of CIA by Administration watchdogs and oversight committees in both houses...
Shell Schreiberg (University of Minnesota '64) admits to a slightly more partisan motive for following the Woodrow Wilson School with Harvard Law School. "I want to know that when the Republicans come in," Schreiberg explains, "I can go and practice...
Emotional arguments about whether a public university should charge tuition -and if so, how much-are not confined to California. In 1965 there were student protests at the University of Minnesota when its regents voted to raise tuition $60 a year. Equally strong debates have arisen in recent years over proposals to impose tuition on students of the traditionally free City University of New York, which is supported by both state and city tax money. On the question of tuition, says Vice-Chancellor Harry Levy, "it's essentially a matter of principle-like Old Glory...
Vermont $575 New Hampshire 536 Rutgers (N.J.) 528 Ohio State 450 Maine 400 Minnesota 375 Mississippi 350 Florida 260 Texas...
...schools' careful calculation of potential givers, plenty of money still comes in, as Fred J. Lauerman, a University of Minnesota fund director, puts it, "over the transom." Florence Dailey of Rochester, N.Y., a stockholder in Eastman Kodak, left an estate of $19 million to Notre Dame and Georgetown when she died last year. No official from either school had ever met her, and except for the fact that she was a Catholic, no one has yet discovered her special attraction to the two universities. When the University of Redlands began a fund drive in 1965, an alumnus...