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...Dartmouth men's tennis team because the first squad to adopt the black and orange racket (Princeton's colors), hoping to capitalize on its advantages in order to upend the probable Ivy League champs, Harvard or Princeton, with the Princetonian invention...
Harold Washington's victory challenges the strength of big-city political machines. The expectations will follow Washington into office, and may force him to adopt new strategies and policies. But his success stems in part from successfully adopting machine methods. It remains to be seen how Washington will react to the problems he will encounter, but whether he decides to redefine the rules of the political game or not, it will boil down to him using the old machine, or subverting is with his new populist...
...student lobbyists asked senators and congressmen to "adopt" a refusenik, the name given Jews denied permission to leave the Soviet Union, said Judith Stern '84, an organizer of the Harvard group...
Obviously, no one system can be totally equitable and account for all contingencies; courses should accomodate all comers whenever possible. Nevertheless, the College should adopt one uniform policy for limiting enrollment so that students can realistically assess their chances of getting into a popular course and plan accordingly. After the mix-ups in Lit and Arts B-16--in which students were mistakenly told that freshmen and sophomores would be excluded, only to find the Core policies dictated a random lottery--Core Director Edward T. Wilcox has said administrators are working toward such a uniform policy for all Core classes...
Weighting a random lottery in favor of upperclassmen should present the most palatable compromise--one which avoids squabbles over access for concentrators, a perennially shaky question. Most Core courses required for a particular department should remain unrestricted, but in the interests of simplicity, equity and sanity, the College should adopt one comprehensive policy--a weighted lottery should offer such a solution...