Word: program
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...football-minded Texas-Exes gave him the "Distinguished Axe" award and a little poem that ended with "only Frank can kill a tree." By now everybody was mad at Erwin- the tree people and others who already resented the fact that he eliminated PEO. (PEO was a very successful program for admitting and funding a few highly motivated students from minority group- which counting blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Indians, make up 46 per cent of the state- who, for various reasons, could neither meet the SAT score requirements nor pay the money.) Erwin said that if we got too many...
Representatives of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) yesterday termed an Administration list of responses to black students' demands of last month "merely a flowery restatement of the status quo vis a vis black employment on Harvard's campus and black participation on Harvard's construction program...
Harvard agrees with the black students that the category of painter's helper should be abolished. "The students had asked that all helpers be reclassified as painters, but the Administration said that not all would be automatically promoted. A new apprenticeship program will be open to those former helpers who wish to join. The Administration will ask the Contractors Association of Boston (3 representative for black contractors) to appoint a three-man committee to review the qualifications of present painter's helpers and recommend changes in their status...
Moynihan contends that the federal government lacks a coherent policy, not program, toward the cities. Programs abound. Between 1960 and 1968, the number of domestic programs rose from 45 to 485. These programs do not add up to a specific set of ends, but this does not impair administrative efficiency. The problems of the cities are diverse and rightfully belong in various program categories. Some problems like traffic congestion or air pollution have clear-cut economic or physical remedies. Other ladies like family disorganization or inferior schooling require more nebulous social responses. Here the need is more accurately cooperation than...
Moynihan's association with the Nixon Administration has caused many people to label him-perhaps unfairly- a conservative. He does accept some key conservative doctrines: the need for economic incentives, the reduction of federalism, and the return to local initiative. He scored the old welfare program for breaking up families. He stands opposed with many Republicans to the provision of services through the federal government. The government, he holds, is good at collecting revenues but bad at distributing services. Direct cash payments to the poor are more effective than what he calls "the monopoly strategy of services," because the government...