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Some of them know medical students who may be drafted too. What a waste of resources when 33 percent of the draftees were rejected for poor health, with our hospitals understaffed and overcrowded. And I remembered that 58,000 soldiers died of disease in the last war, most of them without leaving American soil...
...report suggesting that the proposed ten percent cut in the University's budget for next year be absorbed by means of a graduated reduction in teachers' salaries was circulated by the Teacher's Union among the Faculty yesterday...
...clear and forceful discussion of "The Proposed Ten Percent Budget Cut," the latest Bulletin of the Harvard Teachers' Union raises various objections to the University's emergency financial policy. Some of the objections seem valid on their face; all are worthy of consideration. But the one really vital point made in the Union's leaflet is that the problem of reduced University income is one which will in the future concern every member of the Faculty as well as of the student body, and so should "be discussed freely and openly, in a spirit of democratic cooperation befitting...
Chief among the criticisms made by the Bulletin are that a ten percent budget cut without reduction of existing salaries would: (a) affect departments unequally and arbitrarily; (b) seriously injure the tutorial system; and (c) result in the firing (or rather not rehiring) of a large number of valuable teaching fellows--whereas this might be avoided by reducing Faculty salaries on a progressive income tax scheme...
...first criticism has added weight when specific departments are considered. For example, in one department eighty-three percent of the expenses would be untouchable Faculty salaries, so that the cut would have to come entirely from the seventeen percent reserved for teaching fellows, annual instructors, and administrative expenses. In this case the number of non-permanent teachers dropped would almost certainly be disproportionate to the number of students drafted, and instruction would consequently be impaired. The criticism dealing with tutorial follows from this, as non-Faculty men do the bulk of the tutorial work. The third criticism also is bound...