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According to Nancy Couch--the former Harvard director of the joint fund--each school will now approach both men and women graduates for donations. The policy change was announced in a letter to 22,000 alumni sent out this summer...
...Councillor and rent control advocate David E. Sullivan puts it, "Point 3 is essentially a dead letter. That particular fig leaf that the sponsors are using to cover up the other things they are doing is no longer available...
Last month, University Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred Glimp '50 helped introduce Stanford University President Donald Kennedy '52 to an alumnus who would pay more than $9500 to print Kennedy's letter in favor of University candidates in Harvard Magazine. Glimp gave this aid to Kennedy though Bok was severely criticized three years ago for similarly helping to campaign against HRAAA...
Having served one's country abroad, each discharged soldier should have the right to bring home a submachine gun as "small recompense for the isolation, the boredom and the risk of overseas duty." So argues the National Rifle Association in a letter to drug czar William Bennett, who championed the ban on imported semiautomatic rifles. Bennett, the N.R.A. letter gratuitously points out, was neither isolated nor at risk during his draft-vulnerable years at the height of the Viet Nam War but instead was engaged in "scholarly pursuits" as a graduate student...
Assistant N.R.A. counsel James Warner says he only meant to describe the life of a soldier to Bennett and explain why bringing back a semiautomatic weapon "bought in good faith" is so important to G.I.s. Is Bennett going to answer Warner's letter soon? No, says Bennett's office. Is he ever going to answer Warner's letter? "Basically, the answer...