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The ad hoc committee also recommended that the minority subcommittee send an unranked list of selected applicants to the central committee, Michele D. Holmes, a student member of the committee, said yesterday. Previously the subcommittee ranked its applicants before submitting the list to the central committee.
Ranking minority students "encouraged the central committee to just take the top 50," Holmes said. Eliminating rank, "supposedly should force the committee to examine applications more closely," she added.
Holmes, also a member of the Third World Caucus, a coalition of minority organizations in the Medical School, said the admissions changes "seemed fair." "We are especially glad we could get around the legal problems without eliminating the minority subcommittee," she added.
Kaiser and the Steelworkers agreed to their affirmative-action program voluntarily, notes Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman, but "with the Government looking over their shoulders." Fewer than 2% of the 273 skilled craft workers at the Kaiser plant where Weber works were black, while the surrounding area's work...
Some students so enjoyed the blackout that they forgot to switch the lights back on after the power returned at 12:14 a.m. "We're backward," said Loree L. Farrar '81, explaining why a group in North Houses's Holmes Living Room continued to sing carols by firelight.