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Bambach also stresses that she and her co-workers will step up their effort to disprove critics' claims that the K-School is not concerned about affirmative action. She says that "to a minority student this place could look like a white male bastion--this situation is more a matter of appearance than intent or policy," and adds that affirmative action policies "are not different at the two schools... We both stand to improve on implementation...
Students were somewhat shocked that no one asked for their opinion before any decisions were made. "Most of us see it as a fait accompli handed down by President Bok. Many of us disagreed with that sort of process," says Joe Leitman, who represents the K-School student committee which has debated the issue for several months. Having set their initial indignation aside, students responding to a survey distributed by Leitman's committee were "mostly positive," he says...
...into the Public Policy program while reassuring students such as Scott Muldavin who say, "CRP people are concerned that they will be delegated to second banana over at the Kennedy School." Echoing McCue, Allison says he expects a general reexamination of his school's goals to emerge from the upcoming changes. William F. Hogan, professor of Political Economy and a leader of the pro-transfer lobby within the K-School, em-phasizes the opportunity the overhaul will present: "We ought to look at all of our programs and see how they could be related to public policy...
...many administrative complications engendered by the shift, the merging of admissions procedures may prove the most onerous. Leitman says that some K-Schoolers are worried that "the quality of the degree would be diluted because of laxer admissions standards (for CRP students)." Specifically, some of those involved in the transfer process believe that CRP students will struggle to keep up in courses using mathematics. Dorothy E. Bambach, dean of students at the K-School, disagrees vehemently: "The business of their not being able to keep in quantitative scores is just a lot of smoke. It's unnecessarily demeaning to their...
...Implementation" will remain the key word over the next five years for the leaders of the K-School, and not only in the crusade for more minority faces in the Forum. The grand plans for the new decade are very far from becoming reality...