Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinance provides for enforcement of the law by a citizen-elected Rent Board, with one member from each of the City's 11 wards. The board would be empowered to review annually increases in landlords' operating expenses and taxes in order to prevent general rent increases from exceeding five per cent in any year...
...PIECE in the CRIMSON Supplement last Wednesday, I pointed out that the federal government has become the largest single source of income for American universities, according to U. S. Office of Education statistics. Harvard, a mild case among large private institutions, received 37.8 per cent of its total income from the federal government last year, as compared with 33.6 per cent from private gifts and endowment earnings. The piece showed how, without exerting any direct control, the federal government has changed the entire character of the university, converted it into a "service station," and deeply disturbed the internal university structure...
...research and development funds for long-range goals, then distribute the funds on a project-by-project basis to whoever can do the job best. In 1968, the federal government was obliged to spend $17 billion on research and development--an eighth of the total federal budget. Only 9 per cent (or 13 per cent if university-run federal contract research laboratories are included) of this research money went to universities. The bulk of it (61 per cent) went to private industry. The National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1952, only barely coordinates the dispersal of these funds. When Congress...
...funds are distributed under different conditions by different agencies, to faculty members for specific projects and to individual (or occasionally groups of) universities for research centers. By this method, the universities took over 72 per cent of their total research funds in 1964 (latest Office of Education figures...
Despite all of this powerful support, the university is facing some serious problems. First, the non-research share of federal funds to universities is rapidly increasing. In 1962, scholarship and miscellaneous federal support accounted for only 5 per cent of total federal funds to universities. Today, it is over one-third. Recent plans for more federal aid, such as the Carnegie Commission proposals, would involve Congress further. Second, there is no doubt that public pressure for some kind of an end to university disorders is increasing. Americans want their problems over right away, and they still believe that getting tough...