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...fact, the NBER strives to remain research-oriented and discount a project's lack of immediate application. The federal government funds many of the bureau's projects through the National Science Foundation and through individual agencies for which NBER does work. But NBER's charter states, "the bureau makes no recommendations on legislation or policy, only determines economic factors with impartiality...
Despite the recent official nod of recognition, many students remain skeptical about the assembly's effectiveness. Students credit the assembly with securing free toilet paper for all students next year and holding disco dances, but many say they are disappointed with the assembly's overall performance...
Recently Harvard's biggest gains have come in the federal sector--a welcome, if uncertain, windfall. A Congress intent on budget-cutting could slash aid to education any time and administrators remain wary of relying heavily on the federal funds. But for this year, the Middle Income Student Assistance Act that Congress passed in October 1978 should double both grants to students and federal work-study projects at Harvard. As R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the office of fiscal services, says, "it's the biggest increase for federal aid to education ever--you can't knock that...
...between change and stability undoubtedly will continue to perplex Harvard, as each faction within the University works to promote what it thinks is "best for Harvard." Whether the issue is labor, education, or student causes, the University will continue to encounter both support and opposition in its attempt to remain independent in an over-interdependent world...
...Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty's shabby treatment of the Afro Department, and Harvard's blatant disregard of the rights and needs of its tenants and neighbors in Cambridge, remain as reminders that some wounds do not heal with time...