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...class-size decrease is intended to prevent next year's overcrowding from exceeding that which crunched the college this fall, Bruce Collier, research associate for the Office of Tests, said yesterday...
Although President Bok's 2.5-to-1 plan projected a total addition of 300 students in four years, the college has been moving toward an increase almost twice that large, Collier said. He added that this overflow came in large part from the admission of forced commuters into the housing system...
...that he was not a president in the sense of a Frei, a Thieu, or a Nixon. He was blamed for Chile's economic distress and for the consequent demonstrations of pot-banging housewives and striking truckers. He was, as The Times wrote, operating "brilliantly on borrowed time." Bernard Collier wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 1972: "The political problem for President Allende now is to control the kind of immature people his party has always attracted." The U.S. press had finally provided its readers with a clear-cut image of Chile: Latin America's most stable, most...
However, Bruce Collier, research associate at the Office of Tests, said CHUL eliminated the old criteria because they didn't matter much anyway in the way assignments turned...
...Collier is probably right, but it would have been hard to convince many freshmen last May that the computer, with its mysterious selection method, didn't have some special grudge against them. Nobody is very likely to mourn the passing of the master's choice...