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...their economists are staying in the background. Hardly any have yet joined a candidate's staff full time. Instead, they offer their tutelage in a variety of ways: sometimes by frequent personal meetings with the candidate, often through staff members and sometimes only in an occasional phone conversation, memo or quick chat. Nonetheless, their views of the issues-and of the candidates-provide a preview of the fall debate and possibly even some intriguing hints of the economic tone, mood and direction of the next Administration. A brief rundown on the ideas of the leading candidates...
Last week the Mather Memo, the House newspaper, charged that Collier's method of determining the "pain factor" (the relative pain caused by crowding in each House) as the amount of floor space per capita illustrates that he is "totally divorced from the reality of the housing situation." The Memo editors were not swayed by Collier's explanations, calling them "the reasoning of a functional moron...
Collier responded to the Memo's claim that Mather House is "severely overcrowded" by saying Wednesday that Mather is actually "relatively less crowded" than any other House. Collier supports this statement by comparing the percentage of residents who exceed "ideal capacity" (the number of single bedrooms) in each House. For Mather this percentage is 14.6, a lower figure than that of any other House...
However, Mather students have vigorously challenged the validity of this percentage. Ken Josselyn '77, author of the Memo article, said the 14.6 figure is "fairly arrived at but meaningless" because the ideal capacity figure on which it is based is a biased...
Both Silberman and Guenther claim that none of the suggestions in the memo were carried out; their statement was challenged by the Ralph Nader-affiliated Health Research group. Whether or not the Health Research Group's accusations are true, the fact that a relatively high-level OSHA official viewed his agency as a political tool suggests that some of OSHA's problems are due to a lack of commitment within the agency to the spirit of the original legislation...