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...contain no special provisions to insure a certain number of minority students on the council. Some students clearly find this situation unacceptable. "In light of Student Assembly's prior dismal record in incorporating minority viewpoints, I think there needs to be concrete provisions insuring adequate input from the minority sector," Vada Hill '82, the Black Students Association (BSA) representative to the Student Assembly and a member of the constitutional committee, says. "As it stands now, the constitution has no viable means of insuring minority representation...
...coming months with "cautious optimism," which probably means that they don't know what to expect but hope for the best. Economists, on the other hand, are boldly asserting--in such places as the front of The New York Times--that institutions depending on donations from the private sector are about to be hit by drastic income reductions...
Similarly, Thomas W. Stephenson, the new director of corporate gifts for the Campaign, foresees a continued positive response from the business sector--despite some studies indicating that the new tax laws may eventually eliminate incentive for corporations to practice philanthropy. He says that, having worked in business for years, he is confident that corporations have more in mind than tax write-offs when contributing to universities...
...better to be afraid of unjust laws than to fear lawbreakers? We enthusiastically support Polish civil disobedience, yet we require of our civil servants totalitarian-like oaths that are illegal in the private sector...
Frustrated career executives are leaving federal jobs in droves for better pay in the private sector. The retirement rate among senior supervisors between 55 and 59 alone was an astonishing 95% for the year ending last August, compared with a 15.5% rate in March 1978. C. Roy McKinnon, 51, was assistant director of the FBI for administration, one of the highest posts at the bureau, when he quit. "Hell," he says, "the assistant special agent in charge at the smallest FBI field office was making the same as I was." Adds Robert L. Van Ness, 40, who resigned as director...