The group sent out a memo Friday to all K-School students urging them to write to Dean Graham T. Allison '62 to express their support for a program which would reduce the amount of loan money K-school graduates would have to repay if they enter public service upon graduation.
The five second-year MPP's said they organized the campaign because they had heard K-School administrators were thinking about instituting a loan forgiveness program. "We just wanted to make the issue a little more public, and put a little pressure on," said one organizer Martin J. Letourneau, a second year grad student.
Why Irish Eyes Are Smilin'...
Harvard's only female vice president, Jacqueline A. O'Neill has something in store for her husband (former Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.) and her father-in-law (Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill): she's expecting a baby.
But there's still better news for Boston's most prominent Irish family: the baby's due on St. Patrick's Day, this March 17.
Three Wise Men
They're playing a game of musical chairs over at the Divinity School these days. Endowed chairs, that is.
Until a permanent occupant can be found for the Stillman Professorship of Catholic Studies, three visiting professors, Francis S. Fiorenza, Rev. John W. O'Malley, S.J., and Rev. J. Bryan Hehir will share the spot this fall and spring. The chair was most recently held by the late Dean of the Divinity School, Rev. George McCade, S.J., who died last year.