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...state's formerly whites-only universities remain more than 80% white, even though about half of Mississippi's public high school graduates are black. He contends that the discrimination is bolstered by policies like Mississippi's reliance on the ACT assessment test as the primary criteria for admission to colleges. The score requirement set for admission to Mississippi's onetime white colleges is higher than at the historically black schools...
...sure that the search committee selected Neil Rudenstine because they felt he was the best candidate for the job. Given their criteria, his qualifications were undoubtedly impeccable. But I wonder whether they fully understood the important public role any Harvard president must assume...
...What sort of criteria do you use when selecting the cases [you write about]? In Make No Law, you refer to [the Sullivan case] as "a landmark of freedom," Is that the general intent when you're seeking these out, to make Americans feel good about their judicial system...
Under the new plan, Anderson will be free to choose these top officials according to his own criteria, instead of taking the top scorers...
...urge President Neil L. Rudenstine--the newest member of the Corporation--to take advantage of this time of transition on the Corporation to modify its selection criteria. Of course, we can only trust that the Corporation members themselves have these goals at heart...