Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presented in the form of an amendment of the massive defense authorization legislation, this provision sailed through both houses with only minimal opposition. It will take effect for the 1983-84 school year and will affect all aid programs, including Guaranteed Student Loans, Pell Grants and Work Study funds...
Neither the loan program nor the Pell Grants--direct grants for needy students, targeted by Reagan for nearly $1 billion of cuts--will have suffered substantially by the time next year's aid applications go through. But the College has already seen some disturbing signs of the deeper problems that officials cite...
...Brien says of aid-blind's benefits, "Our faculty likes to have bright students, they like to have diversity. But if we fail to make the more fundamental argument. I think we are missing the best reason of all." Direct Aid Given by Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges Year Pell Grants (federal) Faculty Unrestricted Funds Radcliffe Funds Mass. State Grants 1979-80 $1,375,000 $1,953,000 $430,000 $162,000 1980-81 $1,228,771 $2,134,000 $381,000 $215,000 1981-82 (estimated) $1 million $2,938,000 $400,000 $301,000 All figures compiled...
...proposals are "something of a red herring," Dallas Marin president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators told the lobbyists. He counseled that students counter any suggestion of resorting the GSLs in "exchange" for the Pell grants by "telling them, 'We absolutely dismiss this; now let's look at the rest of your bad proposals...
Skepticism over the Administration's approach reached a new pitch last week after three delegations of U.S. Congressmen descended on El Salvador to take then-own soundings. One of the most vociferous of the skeptics was Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who arrived with fellow Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island. After a private meeting with El Salvador's Defense Minister, General José Guillermo Garcia, Leahy emerged with Pell and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton and complained that he "got along very badly" with the general, who had energetically demanded more U.S. military...