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Unfortunately, the examples used in the article to attack the SATs seemed ludicrous, although the arguments themselves bear some validity. I fault the article for not suggesting that Harvard must re-assess the validity of its use of SAT scores in evaluating white as well as minority standardized scores...
...could three people effectively and with due consideration visit their assigned areas; read hundreds of applications and assess them; recruit in all the major black communities; present candidates' cases before the admissions committee; lend support and help all student recruitment efforts; lead a personal life; and maintain their sanity at the same time? It was clear to the students that this type of tokenism was being used by Harvard to undermine the Third World recruitment effort. The perseverance of Black students in questioning this force resulted in the rein-statement of black student recruitment...
...interpreted by the courts, he has sent some 150 maroon-jacketed highway patrolmen into Pope County to protect work crews. More than 40 farmers have been arrested, for interfering with construction. Perpich has proposed the creation of a "science court" that would have-no legal status but would assess the line's potential dangers, if any, to the health of the farmers, their crops and their livestock. The court would presumably put to rest such wild rumors as the claim by one farmer that he and his fellows will have to wear chains around their ankles to avoid shocks...
Nobody on Wall Street is confident enough to assess the long-term legal dangers to Kodak. But the company's stock has been sliding since 1973, when it reached an alltime high of 151%. Last week, in heavy trading after the Berkey verdict, it dropped more than 3 points, to a close...
Michel Foucault is one of those rare intellectual cult figures whose impact is easier to acknowledge than to assess. Like Ludwig Wittgenstein, he is highly regarded in the narrowest of academic circles. This, the sixth translated volume of Foucault's work, reaffirms his meditative brilliance-and Delphic obscurity. As always, Foucault, 51, ransacks history for prefigurations of contemporary power and knowledge. Discipline and Punish analyzes the institution of incarceration as it burgeoned in 19th century Europe and America. Why this sudden, universal appearance? Foucault's answer: to meet the needs of a new, relentlessly scrutinizing "disciplinary" society...