Word: criterion
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...criterion is that if a bike is loaded with dust or the chain is rusted solid, then I cut it off and get rid of it,” says Coveney, who cut about 10 bikes off the Lowell racks prior to school opening...
...quite accurate. In fact, Michigan’s program involves a 150 point system, in which minority students are automatically given 20 extra points when they apply. Harvard’s program, carefully crafted by former President Bok with the help of federal attorneys, treats race as one criterion among many that may give equally qualified candidates that extra “boost” to gain admission. Both systems aim to increase campus diversity, and both should be protected by the Constitution...
Indirectly, Harvard admissions policies played a part in both the circuit court decision on Tuesday and the 1978 Supreme Court case to which it referred, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which prohibited the use of quotas to achieve diversity but said race could be one criterion for admissions decisions...
...short: Cornel West is black. He is also a daffy, dubious academic. Is it really so unlikely that Larry Summers had the latter, and not the former, criterion in mind...
...initial membership selection round, the sole criterion for nomination is a student’s grade-point average. The committee then considers the difficulty of courses taken, two faculty recommendation letters and the variety of completed course work...