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Clearly nuclear power has already generated more public controversy than than the South Africa question did. This time Harvard's funds are invested in the potential hazard right next door...
...campaign has a number of worthy stated goals, including endowment of faculty salaries, building renovations, student financial aid, new junior faculty positions, and the Public Policy program. It would be a shame, though if none of the millions raised from alumni ever makes its way to students in the form of eased tuition increases. Faculty officials say the $120 million or so they will raise to endow faculty salaries and student financial aid will give them much more flexibility in annual budget-making, by freeing money currently restricted to specific uses for whatever purposes Dean Rosovsky and his Faculty budgeters...
...purchase of conservation devices that will go into effect next year; the bill's scope should also be expanded to subsidize conservation for people who can't afford to invest any money in such efforts. There should also clearly be a major effort to direct public on-the-job training and employment programs towards the nation's energy needs. In addition, we must encourage a new emphasis on community-based conservation efforts already in place in scattered locales. In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the town's leaers have united around the conservation theme. With advice from the federal agency ACTION, they...
...earlier this fall by Archie C. Epps, dean of students. Liquor will only be allowed at senior class functions--and then only when students check I.D.'s to ensure that all the seniors attending are actually 20 years old. To serve alcohol, students have to buy temporary liquor and public entertainment licenses for a $57 fee. But when the functions are only for the House members, the master has jurisdiction...
Instead of fooling with "monetary aggregates" and free-floating interest rates--which the public doesn't understand, and would probably fight if it did--the federal government could take steps to enforce gasoline conservation, either directly by legislated requirements for Detroit or indirectly by an exorbitant gas tax that would force car-makers to produce more efficient autos. There would be inevitable problems to work out, but the public would see a concrete step against inflation much more comprehensible and palatable than Volcker's fiddling...