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...Salaries in other sports are also reaching the stratosphere. Doug Flutie, the quarterback for the New Jersey Generals of the U.S.F.L., has a five-year contract reported to be worth $7 million. Basketball experts expect that the New York Knicks will pay Center Patrick Ewing, this year's No.1 draft choice in the N.B.A., at least $1.2 million a year...
...When a draft agreement containing these radical reforms was presented to the union's leaders in early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could...
Five of the six review committees have yet to release their findings, and the General Education report—presented in draft form to the Faculty Council in March—has been widely criticized as unfocused...
Then-Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who helped draft the recommendations, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson last spring that he recognized the report’s lack of “a guiding philosophy of general education on the order of ‘general education in a free society’ in 1945, or even the Core’s ‘approaches to knowledge...
...since the final draft of the General Education report was presented to the Faculty Council in early March, some faculty have complained that the ten-page report offers only a vague sketch of the complicated reforms that need to be made...