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...unexpectedly high "drop-off rate" among undergraduates has enabled the College to offer permanent residence in University housing to 20 students, admitted to Harvard as commuters, who last year secured only temporary, one-year spaces in Harvard housing, Dean Whitlock said yesterday...
Another possibility is registration or licensing. Massachusetts passed a law last spring imposing a mandatory one-year sentence on anybody caught with an unlicensed gun away from his home or place of business. It is still too early to tell if the law will be a deterrent; much depends on whether people arrested will actually be convicted. New York State has had a tough registration law on the books-the Sullivan Law-since 1911, but it results in few arrests, fewer convictions and no jail sentences. A federal registration law would undoubtedly help keep track of all guns and deny...
...workers got a one-year contract with a 50-cents-an-hour across the board pay raise. The raise means 17.2 per cent more pay for the lowest-paid dining hall workers, and 10.5 per cent for the highest-paid. The workers at the ratification meeting this week greeted the new contract with a standing ovation...
...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is one of the finest in the country--its collections of Egyptian and Oriental art are the best in the Western Hemisphere. Take the Red Line subway to Park Street, transfer to the Arborway, get off at Northeastern and walk two blocks. Admission is $2.50, but you can get in free and buy a one-year student pass for $5.00. Hours are Wed.-Sun. 10-5, Tuesday 10-9. Right now the MFA is also on a bicentennial binge, with an exhibit on Paul Revere and a slide show on the Revolution...
...said these three programs "could lose some ground," but added, "there are compensating factors that would not make a one-year cutback disastrous...