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People wonder why the NCAA isn't tougher or why it's so ineffective. They fail to realize that the organization is only a reflection of its members--most of whom have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The last we heard of the group, it was booting the Ivy colleges out of Division I. That's hardly the stuff of which cleaning out the system is made...
...seems obvious to me that despite what they're saying, things are getting tougher and it's mostly hitting upperclassmen," says Christina Spaulding '84, who had all of a $3000 scholarship replaced by "self-help"--jobs and recommended loans--this year. She, like Weiner, was told that the adjustment came because her family's income went up, but she says that the two factors don't nearly balance...
...face no problems in the coming year, a "near miss" mentality makes itself known. "I'm getting thorugh at just the right time, I guess," says Colleen Ogle '83, an Ohio native whose senior-year grant grew proportionally to costs. "I felt very lucky--I knew it's getting tougher all the time...
...Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, maintains that global banking is quickly beginning to change. Says De Vries: "One thing is certain. The game of international lending is over. If it's going to continue, it will have to be carried on by entirely different rules." New and tougher rules can come none too soon...
...furthering their goals. His "journey through traditionalist America" covers the social and family issues of those who oppose the ERA and busing, the economic worries of those who are fighting for supply-side tax cuts and deregulation of industry, and the foreign policy concerns of those who favor a tougher stand against Soviet adventurism. "Many of the sinews binding the movement's parts are basic conservative tenets, such as affirming authority, discipline, a moral order with a hierarchy of values," he writes. Whether these are signs that the U.S. has "begun a new era," as he claims, is debatable...