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HERE at Harvard, campus police are one step ahead of the national trend. Responding to the federal movement as well as the clamor of local legislators such as Cambridge State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has wisely decided to publish campus crime statistics annually...
...education official said that increasing accountability was high on the list of the department's priorities. The Rappaport plan could either increase this accountability by trimming bureaucracy, or decrease it by loosening federal oversight without compensating at the local level...
...latest proposed budget for the Education Department is $24.6 billion; the Rappaport plan would send $14.8 billion of this to local schools "with no strings and no bureaucrats attached," said Gary McMillan, a Rappaport spokesperson...
...reducing the size of the federal programs, the government would save at least $500 million, which could also be earmarked for local use, Rappaport claims...
Aside from educating, the group's leaders hope their organization will also serve as a liaison through which Harvard students can become involved in local pro-choice activities, Bornstein said. She said the final goal would be a volunteer network that would assist groups such as Planned Parenthood and Mass Choice in everything from transporting abortion patients to clinics to rallying forces for political demonstrations...