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...problem of hiring students to do a great deal of part-time and summer work. To the extent that the student body does not represent all minorities in equal proportions, explains Eric Kurtz, Harvard's director of analytic studies, those workers chosen are unrepresentative. "It's hard sometimes to develop a good pool of applicants," he says...
...passes, Harrington's bill will force schools to develop more thorough, accurate admissions procedures. Castello says he thinks schools tend to place too much emphasis on test scores because of their convenience. "ETS will tell you that a statistical variation of 60 to 70 points is insignificant," Castello says, adding, "That range of error tends not to be widely enough respected. A law school regards an applicant with 700s very differently from one with 630s, for example...
...other Harvard officials will often make their way down to Washington on the shuttle to talk to Congressmen and bureaucrats, and when important legislation is being debated, staff members may spend days there. The primary function of Brewer's office is to provide information to overworked staffers. Harvard can develop expertise on specific issues that staffers can not match, whether they are in Congress or the bureaucracy. An aide on the House Sub-committee on Science and Technology confirms Brewer's analysis. Harvard, he says, provides information on certain issues as often as it lobbies for a position on those...
...cent of the money will go to families with incomes over $30,000." Although tax credit supporters cite the administrative simplicity of the plan--taxpayers can claim the benefit by answering a few questions on their tax forms--Cottington says the Internal Revenue Service would have to develop a complex bureaucracy to monitor the program that will duplicate the functions of existing financial aid bureaucracies...
Other critics in the academic community and elsewhere fear exploitation of recombinant DNA research for profit. George S. Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, mentioned a recent court ruling allowing researchers--whether affiliated with academic institutions or industry--to patent any new micro-organisms they develop. The pharmaceutical industry in particular is conducting intensive research, and would stand to gain from any products it develops as a basis for new antibiotics. Proponents of legislation to regulate recombinant DNA cite this possibility of industry profiteering as a rationale for nationwide legislation...