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Reagor said a crucial element in the Forum's success is the "centeredness and psychologial support; which the Forum in its present form provides
McCue's main worry is the trail of tuition dollars that will drift out of his grasp as the CRP students troop across campus. Allison, on the other hand, has so many administrative knots to untangle that he sees the millions needed for expansion as only one element of "a classic list of problems." First, he and his faculty must decide how to integrate CRP into the Public Policy program while reassuring students such as Scott Muldavin who say, "CRP people are concerned that they will be delegated to second banana over at the Kennedy School." Echoing McCue, Allison says...
Lumping together people who are alike is one level of racism, but there is a stronger, more pervasive element that all students should recognize. The University uses the ploy of setting priorities to justify "color-blindness"--a theory which works only if the society as a whole is color-blind. The University's decision to cut funding gradually for minority recruitment and its apathy in previous years in the search for tenured professors for the Afro-American Studies Department are a few indicators of how the color-blindness works...
...final contradictory element in Carter's program is his pledge to "provide tax relief to encourage investment" once the budget has been balanced. This intent meshes poorly with the administration's stated disappointment that "Retail sales have remained strong," "Employment is still up," and "The widely expected recession has not materialized...
...fate of the hostages in Iran is still a perplexing element in Carter's future. Their safe return would bring a great wave of euphoria, whereas their continued detention makes Carter's vacillations look more damaging as each week passes. Even the euphoria of a safe return cannot last indefinitely, however. The dangerous instabilities of the world and the erosion of the U.S. economy will provide continuing challenges of the kind that Carter has shown himself somewhat ill suited to master...