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...larger number of qualified minority applicants. The GSAS plan, if implemented, would enable a prospective graduate student to submit an application to one school and have it reviewed automatically by other schools; this plan would include Harvard, Yale, Princeton and possibly other schools. The major benefit of this "consortium" is that it probably cannot fail to increase the individual departments' awareness of qualified students. The potential drawbacks are that department chairmen may fail, as they have in the past, to become involved in the actual implementation of the program, shirking the responsibility of individual recruiting. Secondly, the GSAS might...
...attempt to increase their dwin-dling numbers of minority applicants, the graduate schools of Harvard, Yale and Princeton have tentatively agreed to form a centralized recruitment consortium...
Last March President Bok and Dean Rosovsky asked Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute Advisory Board, to aid the GSAS in developing more effective recruitment methods, but McKinney said that the idea to form a consortium originated with Philip T. Gay, whom the GSAS had hired last year to act as minority recruiter. Gay will not continue in the position this year...
Doubtful Interest. Who was putting up the cash? For the time being, Frost would say only that he represented an "international consortium of broadcasting organizations." Spokesmen for all three U.S. networks expressed doubt that they would be interested in Frost's finished product; yet there were no Sherman-like statements that absolutely ruled out the possibility. One reason the networks are unlikely to buy is that they have responsibility for the programs they air. To keep control, they almost never run news shows not produced by their own staffers...
...acceptable under 50%. Still, the airline slipped back into the red by $4.7 million during June, and a huge loss for all 1975 appears inevitable. A new crunch will come in the fall, when Pan Am's $125 million line of short-term credit expires and a consortium of U.S. banks will have to decide whether to make more loan money available...