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...action activist. (Atkinson has said he wasn't motivated by race.) Connerly believes moving away from standard measures like the SAT will mean colleges lose their fundamental goal of academic excellence. "Looking at a student's potential and the adversity they've overcome - what I call the Academic Misery Index - has the potential of totally reforming college," he says, turning campuses into institutions that value diversity and community service over learning...
...Bial's exam, the Bial-Dale College Adaptability Index, has been nicknamed the Lego Test for a 10-min. portion that asks small groups of students to reproduce a relatively complicated Lego robot. One at a time, students are allowed to go and look at the structure, which is placed in another room, but they can't take notes. In another tested activity, students lead a group discussion on a topic drawn from an envelope. In both cases, observers are watching to see who takes initiative, who collaborates well and who is persistent...
...polls, but the NCAA selection committee showed last year that it pays little attention to these national rankings. In a controversial decision, the committee left Harvard out of the tournament last year in favor of Minnesota, which was behind Harvard in the polls but ahead in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) ratings...
...about an in-person, face-to-face, no-holds-barred draft with ten dedicated baseball fans in attendance. Each player sits around a table with notes, fantasy-guide publications, and phone contacts for possible trades or late-breaking news flashes. An elected commissioner announces each pick when a yellow-index card is handed...
...Conference Board reported that its Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 106.8 in February, down from an already lousy 115.7 in January. That's five consecutive monthly drops in the 5,000-family survey, and it tells us that on the whole, folks are glum and getting glummer about their near-term economic prospects. Which means they can't be counted on to prop up the economy with their open wallets...