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Emily Culpepper '82 had a typical reaction. "It doesn't look like Elsie's anymore," she said. "That's the problem...
...even greater problem--highlighted by the recent deaths of Chinese experts in an oil drilling platform accident--is China's continuing inability to produce the scientific and technical elite that new economic plans require. Opportunities to enter higher education remain strictly controlled; recent studies by manpower experts indicate that the demand will continue to outstrip the supply. The forced exodus of experts to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution has caught up with China; the government's recent decision to spend $670 million to upgrade the salaries for those purged is evidence enough of the manpower drought...
...MOST IMPORTANT, the economics of pragmatism threaten to exacerbate China's two great silent schisms. The urban standard of living--coupled with increased opportunities for education and advancement--will continue to outpace the lifestyle in rural areas. The problem is already acute--the memory of extended country vacations during the Cultural Revolution are vivid--and new incentive systems and the influx of industry into provincial urban areas can only make things worse. The embarrassing stresses produced by the city/country gap--including much-publicized visits by impoverished farmers to Peking to demand high standards of living--may multiply to the point...
...School as quickly as the throngs did. Jackson estimates Allison spent more than 500 hours dealing with the controversy. Schelling recalls the issue in vivid terms, saying, "It was a terrible blow, a stunning shock to the whole school. It was an exceptionally difficult political and diplomatic problem, on both sides. He (Allison) was under enormous pressure from alumni threatening to withhold money, deans of other schools who saw it as an important precedent, and concerned faculty and students...
...faculty ranks, Dean Rosovsky last summer set up a committee to determine the numbers and percentages of minority faculty at other universities. Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, who chairs the committee, says so far the group has discovered that the problem of locating minority faculty is universal. But Whitla credits the Black Students Association, not the race relations committee or report, for putting on the pressure that led to the formation of this investigative committee...