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Felipe M. Floresca, coordinator of Brown's center, estimates that nearly half the college's minority students use the facility daily. Floresca says the title "coordinator" was chosen intentionally to avoid the title "director" and all that it denotes. A recent graduate of Brown, he works full-time with one full-time administrator and six work-study students. The dean of the college allocates the center $60,000 in funds annually...
...What I have discussed with the census bureau is a process that matches census files with other administrative files such as medicare and social security and may account for some who were missed by the census. People may often avoid the census for one reason, but that same reason may not prevent them from being registered on some other government files," Keyfitz said...
While Carter had been hurting himself by popping off, Reagan had managed to avoid making any consequential verbal gaffes as he courted blue-collar and ethnic voters in the Midwest and made raids into the South. Last week he picked up the endorsement of the Teamsters Union, which has often backed Republican candidates, and the National Maritime Union, which has never done...
...influence on Reagan. "The thing I contribute is straight information, even when it is bad news, because I have no ax to grind," he explains. When he does take issue with Reagan, it is often in private, and only when he is convinced that his argument can help Reagan avoid political injury. A careful observer of the moods of his boss, he knew Reagan was restive under all the advice to select George Bush as his running mate. Meese maintained his silence, then finally urged Reagan to keep his options open. Reagan did just that and ended up with...
...Dunthers (Mathsters?) will have to improve a little themselves if they hope to avoid the same fate as Lowell House. The Eliot House Dave Gessner to Roy "Hands" McLeese passing combo made a mockery of a non-existent Dunster/Mather secondary, with Gessner going six for eight and 151 yards...