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...Boston University (B.U.) Student Allocations Advisory Board voted Wednesday to recommend that the university fund "the bu exposure," a B.U. student newspaper that is currently involved in a dispute with the B.U. administration over editorial control...
Despite the loss, the Crimson's performance shouldn't hurt them in the New England Coaches' Poll, where they are locked in a three-way dogfight for the fourth spot and final playoff berth with BU and Dartmouth...
...about them. They demanded that the Federal Government boost price supports to 100% parity, a figure based on the prices that farmers received in the relatively prosperous period from 1910 to 1914. Calculated in today's terms, such price supports would boost wheat to a whopping $5 per bu., a figure that would outrage consumers and spur inflation...
Bergland is sidestepping the parity issue. He argues that the new farm bill, signed into law in September, will benefit farmers more than they think. It raised price supports for corn from $1.75 per bu. to $2, and the target price of wheat from $2.47 to $3. Both programs distribute money to farmers when prices fall below certain levels. In November $1 billion in Government checks will begin going out to wheat growers for their summer crop. When that happens, Bergland believes, the farm heat may simmer down...
...Yokum sees it, he may as well go on strike as try to keep farming. Even if he does not plant his 1978 crops, he can apply for a price-support loan on his current grain. He would get $2.04 per bu. of corn as opposed to the market price of $1.80. He would get $2.12 per bu. of wheat instead of $2.01, the current local price. "This will give us some of the capital we'll need," he admits, but he feels it is only a temporary reprieve...