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...University and the MTC did work out a compromise, one which, like all compromises, leaves neither side entirely satisfied. Powers explained the new University policy will be that any worker, regardless of seniority, can be reclassified for a period of time not exceeding three days. If the reclassification job will last longer than three days, the reclassified workers will be selected on the basis of seniority, and if the work will exceed 15 days, the worker will have the choice of asking for a layoff or working on the reassignment. A reclassified worker does not suffer any loss...
...position against such a proposal. In a letter sent to Kennedy a few weeks ago, signed by Hale Champion, Harvard's former financial vice president and now undersecretary for HEW, he expressed his support for new legislation, and explained that department lawyers had advised that the secretary might exceed his authority if he invoked section 361. However, a source involved in monitoring DNA legislation, who asked to remain unidentified, says there are indications that Califano may reconsider the policy, especially if legislation is tied up indefinitely in Congress, a situation Kennedy's inaction on the bill may precipitate...
...backwards step in the Med School's effort to desegregate a traditionally white and male profession. The review committee the Med School faculty has appointed to deal with the issue should realize this, and send Paul packing to make sure his recruitment and admissions processes maintain and exceed the high standards they've already achieved...
...many exceed 50%. Wagner College on Staten Island in New York City hopes to get 1,500 applicants and must accept 1,100 of them to fill a class of 500 -a yield of 47%. Georgia Tech has the same yield, and Emory University in Atlanta has a 38% rate. There is no dearth of colleges with still lower yields. Notes Writer-Educator David Tilley in Hurdles: The Admissions Dilemma in American Higher Education, published last week (Atheneum; $13.95): "Many institutions labeled as selective...
...have moved some 12,000 Massachusetts homeowners to join a mostly blue-collar group called "Fair Share." It aims to get residential property taxed at lower levels than commercial and industrial sites and to enact a "circuit breaker" law to rebate up to $500 of any property taxes that exceed 8% of the payer's taxable income...