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Surveying the damage, Church Historian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago sees a "widespread sense of moral disarray." Once, notes Bryn Mawr Political Scientist Stephen Salkever, "there was a traditional language of public discourse, based partly on biblical sources and partly on republican sources." But that language, says Salkever, has fallen into disuse, leaving American society with no moral lingua franca. Agrees Jesuit Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University: "We've had a traditional set of standards that have been challenged and found wanting or no longer fashionable. Now there don't seem to be any moral...
Suzanne Spain, the college's assistant treasurer, said, "Bryn Mawr believes very strongly in being open to students of all socio-economic backgrounds." She said the school plans to keep its need-blind policies...
...number of faculty Bryn Mawr employs will be reduced if the proposal passes, though all the cuts will occur through "normal attrition," Myers said. No faculty will be fired, but some posts will not be refilled when the people who now hold them leave or retire, she explained...
...Bryn Mawr has a "problem which is typical of many smaller schools, which is that the need to support new programs and maintain old ones outpaces sources of income," Spain said...
Said Spain: "Bryn Mawr has always had a hard time looking financially healthy...