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...just east of St. Louis. As a result, each of them is paying close attention to the traditionally neglected interests of the moderate-to-conservative downstate farmers and laborers. Downstate residents who used to vote for the candidate who paid the most attention to them must now find different criteria...
...attention focused on the vice presidency is a post-Watergate development. Increased voter awareness coupled with widespread media coverage of vice-presidential nominees has forced presidential candidates to spend more time and use different criteria in selecting their running mates. In addition, the office itself has gradually gained influence--it is no longer just a ceremonial post--and the days when a vice president disappeared into anonymity as soon as he was sworn in seem gone for good...
That's where the ratings system comes in: using 32 criteria, the community development department has ranked types of development in descending order of objectionability...
...report's implications for the future of affirmative action was, why this report now? President Bok, who commissioned the study from Robert E. Klitgaard '68, his special assistant, said in a letter to the Crimson this week that he asked Klitgaard to study five areas: to summarize current admissions criteria at each Harvard school; to discuss "goals that admissions committees might ideally seek to achieve in selecting applicants"; to review literature about the effectiveness of grades and test scores as admissions criteria; to review the effectiveness of other admissions criteria like interviews and letters of recommendation; and to list other...
...These concerns are typified by the Truth in Testing bills introduced in several legislatures during the past two years. In view of these criticisms, I thought it desirable to conduct a review of the existing literature and experience covering the following points: (1) a summary of the methods and criteria used by each of the several Faculties at Harvard in admitting students; (2) a discussion of the goals that admissions committees might ideally seek to achieve in selecting applicants; (3) a review of the literature concerning the most common criteria for admission--prior grades and standardized test scores--to ascertain...