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...select the "best" possible students is nothing but a platitude. How should merit be defined? As Klitgaard points out, at universities today "merit" is not simply confined to academic merit as measured by grades and test scores. Leadership, motivation, and diversity of background and race are all among the criteria schools consider in selecting their members...
...Medically Dependent and Disabled and the American Civil Liberties Union, stem from a 1983 article in a medical journal that was written by four doctors involved. It said that all 36 babies selected for treatment survived, while 24 children who received no treatment died within six months. The criteria used to determine who should get treatment, according to the Legal Center, included the severity of illness as well as the anticipated "contribution" from home and society. The two groups claim that race and economic background were among the factors considered. Carlton is black, and many of the other children...
...Reagan administration knows a visit to a Nazi cemetery is wrong. Administration officials were testing public reaction, and when it was indignant, claimed the plan was "tentative" when the original itinerary contained no such word. Only public pressure can prevent such moral oversites from occuring, and only apathetic criteria can augment them Reagan might change his mind, but the intent was there, Kenneth Bialk chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, says, "What kind of symbolism does one attach to a visit that includes a ceremony to the agents of the Holocaust at the same...
...criteria] certainly would make the admissions process a lot easier on the committee, and I don't think we'd have any housing problem," says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids L. Fred Jewett '57 of the old admissions requirements...
There are more relevant criteria. First, the nature of the oppression and the purposes of those fighting it. The difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Salvador, a fledgling democracy is under attack from avowed Marxist-Leninists. In Nicaragua, a fledgling totalitarianism is under attack by a mixture of forces, most of which not only are pledged to democracy and pluralism but fought for just those goals in the original revolution against Somoza...