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...With exhaustive criteria for everything from sleeping conditions to religious freedom, the new guidelines are designed to answer years of complaints from human rights lawyers charging the agency has shirked its duty, as departing INS commissioner Doris Meissner says, "to provide safe, secure and humane conditions of detention for all aliens in U.S. custody...
There is no reason to think that this year's result is anything but a fluke. In the last 10 years, following fairly strict endorsement criteria, Harvard College has nominated 458 candidates for the U.S. Rhodes, 44 of whom have been fortunate enough to win. In this same decade, U.S. state committees have considered over 10,000 candidates from 350 colleges and universities. That one school's students should fare so well, and do so consistently over time, is truly remarkable in this context...
...student committee's meetings eligible to vote for that committee's election. The election process may still have far to go; turnout was estimated at only 50 percent of eligible voters, and candidates for seven of the 13 available positions were uncontested. Yet these initial elections based on objective criteria for eligibility serve as a good model for the future, providing for more open and inclusive student leadership. We also hope that the future structure will provide, as SAC did, a venue for students to discuss IOP-wide issues outside the bounds of specific program committees...
...Druggan said that Michigan's old policy--in place until 1998--violated the U.S. Constitution since the university set entirely separate criteria for white and minority applicants...
...Academy of Management chose criteria designed to differentiate the results from those of the US News and World Report and Business Week surveys, which do not place the same emphasis on research opportunities...