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While 41.3 percent of the graduates surveyed cited "high income potential" as an important criteria in their career decision, almost 90 percent selected "intellectual challenge" and 71 percent "the opportunity to be helpful to others" as significant considerations...
...small print to the right were columns representing the five criteria used in the rankings: academic reputation, student selectivity, retention patterns, faculty quality and financial resources...
...leaped out of his insignia sweatsuit at this sight. The folks at U.S. News & World Report were headed in the right direction, he said, but they had stopped way short of completion. "How in the name of Widener," he swore, "could anyone judge a school on just five broad criteria...
...this argument, such characteristics as personal disposition--whether one is amiable, witty, etc--the quality by which clubs presumably choose their members are not valid criteria for selection...
...club itself admits that it is not organized for any advocacy pupose," so the members' rights will not be infringed upon by the admittance of women. "The anti-discrimination statutes merely prevent the club from using sex as a shorthand measure for selecting members in place of more legitimate criteria for determining membership," it states...