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Harvard improved its already strong financial position in the '80s when it, in concert with other top schools, conspired to illegally fix tuition costs and eliminate merit-based financial aid. This practice increased tuition rates much more rapidly than most family incomes. Knowles would have more accurately described expanding financial aid as returning illegally-obtained funds to the American public. If the administration is serious about making the Harvard experience available to all, it should move to increase financial aid to working-class families. CHRISTOPHER G. ROBERTS '01 March...
This week, students at more than 110 major college campuses across America are taking their education into their own hands in one of the biggest nationally-organized student movements since anti-apartheid in the '80s. This kind of student discussion is especially needed at Harvard, where no one seems to have a good answer for questions like: Why do we still have the Core? What happened with the grape vote? Or even, did we just almost go to war with Iraq...
...Clinton years, both the major political and policy legacies of Reagan have been discredited. "Reaganomics," as his economic policy came to be called, of lower taxes, higher defense spending and a devil-may-care attitude toward the bottom line, has been blamed for the huge deficits of the '80s while Clinton's "anti-Reaganomics" has actually worked. It has contributed to both a growing economy and the elimination of the deficit...
They live within Harvard's television-saturated culture, but they do not sing along with their roommate's CD of "Hit TV Theme Songs of the 80s." They ask "Scoobie Who?" They cannot imitate Michael Jackson's dance from "Thriller." No, they aren't aliens. They don't even come from "Third Rock" or the X-Files. They are ordinary students, with one key difference: they are the television deprived...
...performance of theatrical events, including a nod to ancient comedy in last year's "Menaechmi" of Plautus. In the late '60s and early '70s, the church was a center of protest for those politically opposed to the draft and to the Vietnam War as a whole. In the '80s, it was part of the vocal opposition to the violence and political persecution in Central America...