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Yesterday afternoon more than 75 first-year medical students met with F. Sargent Cheever '32, chairman of the review committee and next year's director of admissions, and Dr. Leon Eisenberg, the current chairman of the admissions committee, to clarify certain aspects of the report...
...Dorothy B. Villee, principal research associate in Pediatrics and a member of the review committee, said last night that the problem of the socio-economically disadvantaged is being discussed at the moment. She said if Cheever feels there is a need, modifications may be made in the report...
...dedication to goals and not quotas in its resolutions regarding minority acceptances. Here again, the admissions committee at the Medical School has over the last two years-apparently demonstrated good intentions, by accepting minority students in a reported 20-per-cent proportion that matches the nation's ratio. The Cheever report recommends that if anything, minority acceptances should exceed one fifth, to keep up with an increase in the proportion in the population of minorities below...
...that medical army. Clearly, the Medical School should not expect or encourage a great degree of specialization among its applicants from colleges. Still, the Medical School is training doctors for service in society and should select students on the basis of the "putative needs of society," a policy the Cheever report opposes...
...Cheever report perhaps places too much faith in the Medical School faculty and its admissions policies. Still, it must be hoped that the faculty, when it votes on the report next month, will approve the committee's statements regarding acceptances of women, then go further by instituting a one-to-one acceptance ratio...