Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subjects of this week's cover story well before Le Carré-David Cornwell, that is-began to write his tale of British intelligence and Far Eastern intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned to the city, Wong and the author "huddled in his hotel suite for two days, going over a first draft, one paragraph after another. He had charts of sea tides, timetables for events in chronological order, maps and pictures of places...
...instruct the U.C. Davis Medical School merely to reconsider Bakke's application for admission. The justices should tread confidently but lightly, however, and produce a unified majority opinion that supports affirmative action and compensatory programs for the disadvantaged, but still rules unconstitutional the use of strict quotas and ethnic background as factors in admissions decisions...
...individuals overcome environmental liabilities. Opening up compensatory programs to those individuals who no longer suffer the disadvantages of historic repression does little good for those who still do. Programs such as U.D. Davis Med School's quota system for non-whites should be open to all individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of their ethnic background. Flexible guidelines should replace the use of any strict quotas. While such changes would make the admissions process more difficult--requiring additional recruiting as well as a more thorough identification of individuals--it is more equitable and socially just. And, because minority groups have suffered...
...threaten the admissions practices of thousands of institutions across the country, by implying the existence of some numerically fixed standard of merit, such as grades and test scores that cannot be affected by other factors. A standard of this kind would suggest, for instance, that geographical distribution and socioeconomic background cannot be used as criteria in admissions, that Harvard cannot accept a poor black applicant from Alabama over a rich white one from New York City if the latter has a numerically better academic record. In view of the inequality of opportunity still present in this country, that...
There they were, in bold black figures on a white background--foot-high digits on the Business School soccer field scoreboard Wednesday, making it official: Harvard 5, Wesleyan 2, and the Crimson had its first soccer win in 11 games...