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...increasing number of applicants for admission will make it easier for the College to choose a larger number of freshmen from those applicants with a predicted rank list of Group I or II. Indeed, even now there is much support for choosing the incoming class from those candidates with the highest predicted Rank List. This feeling is most prevalent among the younger faculty members, products of the modern Ph.D. factories, and among some members of the science departments...
...don’t think it even came up because the Lampoon was a male organization, and I don’t think that anyone was even considering at that point letting women come in,” former Lampoon President James D. Stanley II ’59 said recently. “Women didn’t ask to come in, and the men didn’t ask them to come...
...Then-astronomy professor Abraham Loeb said that Sputnik II and the subsequent satellites in the Sputnik series became the focus for the observatories...
...continues to evolve, and a new committee, again chaired by Dowling, is currently working on a report to address the strengths and weaknesses of today’s Council. The Committee to Examine the Role of the Student in College Governance, known informally as “Dowling II,” is set to release a report some time next year...
Modern agribusiness owes a debt to J.R. Simplot, who left home at age 14 and went on to dominate the American potato business. He supplied U.S. troops with dried food during World War II and sold French fries to fast-food chains, but the Idaho native also invested in cattle, fertilizer plants and timber--not to mention computer-chip pioneer Micron Technology. The oldest billionaire in the world last year, according to Forbes, Simplot remained ambitious--and proud--driving around Boise in a white Lincoln Town Car with mr. spud vanity plates...