On Dec. 5, 1989, The Tufts Community Union Senate gave its support to a University boycott of coffee made from Salvadoran coffee beans in protest of recent atrocities attributed to that country's military.
Senators passed the resolution following heated debate. The TCU Senate made the University of San Salvador the sister school of Tufts in 1987.
On Dec. 6, as a result of a drop in student enrollment and a number of vacant dorm rooms, the administration faced a fiscal crunch.
Concerns were raised that the crunch could lead to cuts in the Athletic Department's budget for next year.
Administrators said, however, that intramural sports were not in danger of being cut from the Athletic Department's budget.
On Dec. 8, a survey by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching covered faculty attitudes on a number of issues.
Three-fourths felt that students were seriously under prepared for college. 48 percent rated their salaries as "excellent" or "good." 85 percent thought students had become more politically conservative. 57 percent described themselves as liberal and only 27 percent as conservative.
