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Thirsty West Virginians who plunk quarters into soda machines help finance a state medical school. Cigarette smokers in Washington State cough up $31.7 million a year to clean Puget Sound, while home buyers in Maryland pay transfer fees that help buy new parklands. This practice of earmarking taxes for specific government functions is growing steadily: at least 18 states have adopted targeted taxes since mid-1984, and dozens more such levies -- for schools, police, roads, drug-abuse treatment -- are pending in states from California to Michigan...
...other developments, the College created subsidized off-campus housing last fall for the first time ever. Designed to ease overcrowding in the houses, the "annex housing" program also benefited transfer students, who are not guaranteed on-campus housing...
College overcrowding eased this year as large classes graduated and fewer students returned from leave, so University officials decided to use annex housing primariy for transfer students. The move allowed Harvard to accept a record number of transfer students, 100, this spring for the 1988-89 academic year...
Every Harvard admissions officer evenutally must answer this question, as high school seniors repeat the commonly accepted belief that Harvard professors care little about undergraduate education and transfer many of their teaching duties to graduate students serving as teaching fellows...
...fire Jersey City Superintendent Franklin Williams, along with most of his top aides, and clean out the nine-member city school board -- provided the state board confirms his plan. Explains the commissioner: "We looked at how the district governs itself, financial aspects, how they handled personnel, hire, promote and transfer, and at the curriculum. The sickness is pervasive...