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...drop in the committee's acceptance rate of Blacks--from 27 to 24 per cent (while the acceptance rate for non-Blacks remained at 15 per cent)--had nothing to do with the Klitgaard report, admissions officials say. While they do look at economic background and at "what applicant can contribute in many ways," admissions people are not looking specifically at color when they make their decisions, Fitzsimmons says. "There is no target, no quota. Our committee goes through and picks the best candidates." Fitzsimmons says. "There is no target, no quota. Our committee goes through and picks the best...
Admissions officials also say they have not seen evidence that the drop in the Black yield--from 73 to 69 per cent (while the non-Blacks yield remained at 75 per cent)--is related to the release of the Klitgaard report. The study was not mentioned by any of the Blacks who turned Harvard down, officials says, although extensive surveying of people who opted for other schools did not occur this year (such analysis takes place every three to five years and last happened in 1979). Fitzsimmons calls the yield decline insignificant, while Evans says that, if anything caused...
...architectural consulting firm, Sasaki Associates Inc. of Watertown, to study lighting in the Yard and at the Quad. Robert Saltonstall, Harvard's new associate vice president for administration, says the study cost about $6000 and that its primary goal was to cut energy use by 25 to 30 per cent, "while also improving security and appearance, if possible...
...successful company," Lewis C. Cantley, an assistant professor in Biochemistry, says. "I wouldn't want to carry the weight of making the company survive." Cantley is currently considering an offer from a drug manufacturer: He would serve on the firm's scientific board and receive 2 per cent of its equity...
...knows how long it will take for the facility to show a profit. No one knows how the list of regulations tacked into the gameplan will affect the plant's intended cost-saving nature, originally anticipated to cogenerate fuel at a savings of nearly 30 per cent. But everyone will soon find out. Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration and chairman of the Harvard subsidiary which runs MATEP, anticipates no technical delays. "There's no reason for us to believe that the design of the plant is faulty," Wyatt says...