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...research institution, a "very different ballgame" from Radcliffe, which "commands enormous respect for the quality of its students and the courage it has had." The contrast, as one Capitol Hill staffer says, is in the aura; "When Harvard talks, people are inclined to lend a friendly ear," he says. Wolanin differs somewhat in his assessment. "What makes the difference between two institutions is what they say," he insists, adding, "Some of the best ideas come from unprestigious and unknown universities...
...basic feeling, as officials both in Cambridge and Washington relate, is that women's colleges have no reason to lobby by themselves. "I don't think they have any unique issues," Schmidt says, adding quickly that "if they did, we'd be happy to do something." Thomas Wolanin, staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Post-secondary Education, says that his staff "assumes that women's colleges have no unique problems different from independent colleges or higher education as a whole...
Carter's threatened veto of tax credit legislation will not be overridden, Tom Wolanin, staff director of the House Subcommittee on Post-Secondary Education, said yesterday...
...Wolanin said, however, that the bills containing Carter's proposals probably will be enacted into law, but a spokesman for Sen. Claiborne Pell, (D-R.I.), who sponsored the bill in the Senate, doubts that the bills could be passed this session...
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...