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...California. They note that it unfairly singles out students who need loans, while not affecting those who pay their own way. Nonetheless, institutional resistance, now that the Supreme Court has allowed the rule to take effect, seems to be waning. "We'll go along with it, reluctantly," says Provost Nicholas Clifford of Middlebury College in Vermont...
Five years later, the median SAT of accepted students rose over 1300, and the entering class of 1987 promises to be more geographically diverse than its predecessors. Although George Koval, acting assistant provost for university life, admits that the admissions office has actively moved to "touch pockets of candidates in other areas of the nation where we might not have touched before," he does not see any concerted effort on the administration's part to improve the public image, nor does he consider it a serious problem...
Asked about the students' efforts, Tufts Provost Sol Gittleman said, "The astonishing thing is how little students know about the tenure process," adding that students "just don't know what the tenure process...
...Computer advances should not be left only to places such as Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley," said Associate Provost William Shipp of Brown University, which recently announced plans to spend up to $70 million in the next six years to make computers available to every student, teacher, and staff member on campus...
Acting Vice Provost for University Life George Koval released a statement saying the incident "raises questions about the manner in which the fraternity exercised the privilege of self-governance, of conduct without supervision." Koval's statement added that Penn President Sheldon Hackney and Provost Thomas Ehrlich approved the decision to withdraw recognition...