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Test experts and campus minority leaders interviewed this week say the results disclosed in a confidential report on admissions data only confirm their belief that the Scholastic Aptitude Test discriminates against certain ethnic and economic groups...
...Reports confirm Socks is neutered...
...recent studies seem to confirm that homosexuality is as genetically based as being blue-eyed or lefthanded. And heterosexuals, whether out of tolerance or spite, have been only too happy to concede to gays a special and probably congenital identity of their own. It's a way of saying, We're on this side of the great sexual divide -- and you're on that...
...alarm first sounded back in 1974, when Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine warned about the destructive impact that CFCs could have on the atmosphere. Before banning these important industrial chemicals, however, scientists had to confirm that CFCs did in fact attack ozone and that society produced enough of the chemicals to create a ! problem. Within a few years, most scientists accepted that CFCs were a real threat, though uncertainties remained. In 1978 the U.S. banned the use of CFCs in aerosol sprays and began pushing for international controls...
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 declined to confirm the statistics in the report or comment on the report directly. But he did back the general findings of the study without mentioning specific numbers...