Word: dockets
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...small town in Oregon, it will become wary of admitting more. Perhaps, as Whitla suggests, the advocate himself will not be able to find it in him to argue a tenth case enthusiastically. More important, there is something of a quota built into the admissions process. This is the docket system. Applicants are divided into 22 dockets, according to the secondary school the student attended. Far from Harvard, the docket divisions are large geographical units; Docket B, for example, is The Rockies, and G is Ohio and Kentucky. But further East, Docket K is Cambridge, Docket I is entitled Andover...
After all the numerical parameters are available, a computer examines the evidence and announces an approximate quota for each docket, based on how many were admitted from this docket last year and how the numerical evaluations of this year's students in the docket compare with this year's applicants overall. Thus, if California's applicants suddenly become twice as good as last year (by the numbers) relative to the whole group, the computer will allot more places to California-but not twice as many...
...Faculty holds another emergency meeting Tuesday. Cavell's proposal will be on the docket, along with two others. One, by Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College, asks the Faculty to resolve that "new and extraordinary means be found to involve black students in the Afro-American Studies program." The other, by B. Irven DeVore, associate professor of Anthropology, suggests an interim solution of placing three students chosen by Afro on the Standing Committee, Afro representatives will probably be invited to attend Tuesday's Faculty meeting...
When Pauley's plan appeared on the Regents' docket, the chancellors' outcry was immediate. The residual liberals on the Regents joined them, as did students demonstrators at all the UC campuses. All denounced the Regents' blatant attempt to impose political limitations on the faculty...
...attempt to obtain student membership on the Committee failed at the last Faculty meeting when the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee was unable to place its resolution on the docket. According to Kaplan, the resolution will be discussed at the March meeting of the Faculty...