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Harvard has lobbied hard in favor of the middle income assistance program, says Thomas R. Wolanin of the House Select Committee on Post-Secondary Education. R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of Harvard's office of Fiscal Services, has made frequent trips to the Capitol. "Gibson has been helping our staff devise a bill that technically does the right thing; he's really one of the national experts on student loans," Wolanin says...
...keep abreast of developments in Washington, Harvard juggles a fair number of complex issues. It is for this purpose that the University cultivates an effective lobbying staff--one that forcefully represents Harvard's position through the many avenues of lobbying. The government may remain obdurate on many of its positions, but Harvard is equally stubborn, and as long as both sides stick to their guns, the lobbying game is bound to continue...
There were other pressures to ensure that some kind of bill passes, including White House and university lobbying. Joseph Oneck '62, associate director of domestic policy staff, said last week the administration's original bill contained no federal override clause. Now, he says, the administration may settle for a moderate federal override clause that would allow local government more say. "We take a pro-environmental stance," Oneck explained. "Cambridge seems to have worked out a liveable compromise, and we'd hate to override the work of the community," he added...
...says. "We didn't look at other places. We tried to find our own solution." The belief throughout the whole process, he says, was that Harvard is unique, and therefore should neither copy other schools' programs, nor be copied. "We seriously doubted whether many schools have resources to staff and implement a plan like this," he says. Similarly, what sitinguishes the Core from other undergraduate curricula, which might possess similar structural categories, is the detailed set of guidelines that spell out the type and variety of courses in each of the Core areas...
Gibson is the staff assistant to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Tucked in an office of her own on the first floor of University Hall, Gibson serves as a buffer between Epps and the hordes of undergraduates clamoring at his door, and she solves many of their problems on her own. Her biggest difficulty, in fact, is often no in devising solutions but in convincing the students their woes are not as severe as they think...