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...government initiative that sparked the violent clash had seemed innocuous enough. Unveiled last summer, the package called for restructuring the country's 78 universities to make them more competitive. Each institution ! would be allowed to tighten its admission standards, increase its fees slightly (now less than $100 a year) and grant its own diplomas. At present, all those who pass the tough baccalaureat exam, which is given after secondary school, are guaranteed admission to a university on a first-come, first-served basis. Upon graduation from the university, students receive "national" diplomas that do not identify the school attended...
...when hundreds of thousands of radicalized French students took to the streets to protest a wide range of university and government policies. But the new generation of student demonstrators had more modest goals and more orderly manners. Their aim: to defeat an educational-reform bill that would tighten admissions standards and raise tuition fees...
...proposal that would tighten Cambridge's existing anti-smoking laws by make smoking illegal in public areas and workplaces is likely to become law at Monday night's City Council meeting, officials said this week...
However, Harvard officials say the University will soon tighten its disaffiliation policy with the all-male clubs...
That, however, is exactly what has happened. Last week, the Pudding powers that be decided to jack up dues, tighten admissions and reinstate the tradition of giving honorary memberships to the presidents of Harvard final clubs. In the recent past, the 216-year-old organization has made efforts to open itself up by admitting women and accepting almost everyone who applied for membership. That trend seems to have reversed itself. The Pudding has made a move toward exclusivity at a time when it has become more dependent on the university of which we are all a part--a time, that...