Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe added four night watchmen, bringing the ratio to one man per two brick dormitories, it would cost $20,000 to $40,000 each year. Increasing the police patrol to between five and seven men for one eight-hour shift would add another $20,000 to $50,000. Or the University Police could relocate some patrolmen now working in other areas rather than adding new ones to the force...
This plan would cost from $20,000 to $74,000 per year. Radcliffe is presently raising $30 million, $15 million of which will go to improvements on campus, such as Currier House, 200-car parking lot under the Quad, a connecting link between Eliot and Bertram, and others. Considering this sum, and the imminent merger with Harvard, $74,000 seems a small amount to spend on the physical safety--perhaps even the lives--of 1200 Cliffies...
Youth Fare, appearing as it did after my friends and I had made 18 transcontinental train trips, was an Emancipation Proclamation for the middleclass student. Across the country, youths in the 12-22 age bracket swarmed to the airports; by 1968 six million per year were taking advantage of the reduced fares...
...ECONOMICS of the airline industry are complex, but if you remember any Ec 1 at all you can understand the pricing policy pursued. By far the largest group of passengers are businessmen, who account for 40 to 60 per cent of all passenger seatmiles flown. Demand for air travel in this group is relatively inelastic: even a sharp reduction in fares would not substantially increase the number of businessmen who fly--and it would definitely lose money for the airlines...
...What is amazing about marijuana is how little is know about it," Dr. Andrew T. Weil '63 told an audience of about sixty students in CRIMSON yesterday. "Thousands and thousands of articles have been printed. Ninety-nine per cent are simply rumor and anecdotes...