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Further pressure has come from administrators. Concern over the state of American education was crystallized in a 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education titled A Nation at Risk. Prompted by such concern, some educators are stressing that the first years of school profoundly affect a stu dent's future performance. Leslie Williams, associate professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, concludes, "There's a current notion that' if we start correctly on the ground floor, maybe we can fix things...
Students throughout the year tried to get the University to change the date, writing 3 petition to President Bok, among other actions--but to no avail Harvard officials said that Jewish legal authorities had told them that it is acceptable for stu- dents to attend Commencement ceremonies after attending morning holiday services. They did promise, though, to make every effort to make sure such a conflict did not arise in the future...
...campaign chairman is Sen. Paul Laxalt (R.-Nev.), the person on Capitol Hill closest to Reagan; the chief strategist and campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a former Oakland Raider and assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House. The Reagan team also managed to grab consultant Stu Spencer, the premier political tactician who gave President Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign the only real intellectual power it ever...
...conducting a referendum to determine the prevailing sentiment regarding this matter. The logic behind the referendum, then is this: the concert is being planned for Harvard undergraduates; if those undergraduates do not wish us to hold the concert, it would be silly to do so. The fact that Stu Raphael has additional reasons for the referendum should not take away from the Council's basic logic any more than the statements of Professor Bossert should take away from the Faculty's logic in supporting the Core Curriculum...
...third of the 10,000 high school stu dents taking more than two academic courses flunked more than half their basic academic subjects last winter. Some 60% failed because of excessive absenteeism (about a fourth of the high school students were absent on any given...