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...California Law Review (University of California at Berkeley): All editors are chosen in a writing competition, and an affirmative action program has been underway since the early 1970s, according to editor-in-chief Terry Lippert. The editors decide the number of new members the need to put the magazine out before they start; they then screen the writing comp to eliminate those students who don't meet a minimum standard. The editors pick the number of new editors they decided upon from the top scorers in the comp, and then examine this group. If it does not meet the same...
Columbia Law Review (Columbia University), Columbia mixes a writing competition and grade selection, says editor-in-chief Daniel Leffell. A certain number of the top writing comp scorers make the review regardless of their grades and the rest of the editors are selected on both grades and writing comp results, weighted 70/30. Individuals are not told how they made the review. "There's been a fair amount of lamenting the low proportion of applications from minorities and women. The 30 third-year editors at Columbia include 10 women but no minorities; the 34 second-year editors include five women...
Yale Law Journal (Yale University): Since 1970, anyone who submits a publishable note to the journal has become an editor. "There's a good deal of concern among officers and members about getting women and minorities to write notes," says editor-in-chief John Campbell. Current editors work with students to give them advice and edit their notes. Of Harvard's system, Campbell says. "They put themselves in a difficult position when they select on the basis of grades. I don't see grades as a proxy for good editorial skills...
...group was chaired by Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald .and included W. Michael Blumenthal, Treasury Secretary in the Carter Administration; Paul Nitze, a leader of the hard-line Committee on the Present Danger; and Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine. The report was drafted primarily by Helmut Sonnenfeldt, State Department counselor under Henry Kissinger...
Steven N. Fine '81, 1981 editor-in-chief, said he though the GSA "voerreacted" to the article, written by Adams House resident Jared S. Corman '81. Fine said the GSA's demands were "out of proportion to the hurt the article caused...