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...committee members "attended admissions meetings, interviewed members of the admissions staff, and worked closely with Dean L. Fred Jewett and other deans and directors in the office," Arthurs said in her report...
...Jewett recognizes the need, but nonetheless defends the admissions proceedings. "We haven't hired any admissions personnel this year, due to the merger of the two admissions offices," he says, adding "when we've had openings in the past, we've never had a Chicano applicant. Hiring Arrequin on a part-time basis was the best available alternative...
...admissions office viewed the matter otherwise. "Jewett [L. Fred Jewett '57, Harvard-Radcliffe dean of admissions and financial aid] claimed that L. A. should be cut out completely because he had already sent two admissions officials there," Garcia says. But only two of the high schools covered by the officials--Montebello and Loyola, a Jesuit school--had predominantly Chicano populations. The compromise that ultimately emerged: one student recruiter would be funded by the admissions office in Los Angeles, and Garcia had to raise private contributions from individual Chicano undergrads to pay for the $300 plane fare...
...Garcia appears relatively satisfied with the recruitment system in its present structure. Student recruitment is more effective than alumni efforts, he argues, adding that "students can talk to each other on a peer level." Jewett concurs, saying "The students' activities have in fact increased the number of applicants. Places where students have travelled have produced more applications...
...Jewett is frank about this area. He says "there is no question that in the area of Chicano recruitment, they [Yale] have done a better job of recruiting than any other Ivy school...