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...Kiely maid is paid out of the entertainment fund despite the creation two years ago of a separate administrative stipend that Dean Whitlock yesterday called "more appropriate" for such expenditures...
Money had brought our class together; I'm paid by Newbury, while the Veteran's Administration pays the students' tuition and an additional cash stipend for regular attendance. Most of the men are in school primarily for the extra cash--an inauspicious beginning I felt sure we'd transcend as the group took on a life...
...years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend of $5 a year. On the other hand, the red ribbon sometimes impresses policemen and plumbers, and according to one recipient, "it helps to get better service in restaurants...
Another solution would be to transfer CUNY to the state, which would charge tuition, raise educational standards and close overlapping facilities. In addition to a free education, less affluent students who belong to SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) receive a stipend averaging $30 a week. The state education department recently complained that SEEK students were not learning fast enough and were taking dubious courses, such as Caribbean religion and education and the Third World. Says Savas: "This is a very expensive way of achieving remedial education...
Bloembergen yesterday called the national award, which carries no stipend, "the highest distinction I have received to date...