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...endorsing a woman, Harvard follows a precedent set by the University of Minnesota, which endorsed Eileen Lach in 1972. Lach was disqualified at the state committee level...
...month before the interview scheduled by her state committee, Lach received a letter from William Barber. Barber, secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee in America. In that letter, Barber told Lach he had instructed the Minnisota state committee to void her application because...
...festival's highlights were, predictably, the well known American entries. Huston's Fat City, and Ralph Bakshi's animated Heavy Traffic. A British entry, Ken Lach's pseudo-documentary study of a family and their "maladjusted" daughter, called Family Life, also drew a surprisingly large amount of attention, attracting one of those impossible, unpoliced Italian lines where people stand three abreast, and little groups from time to time try to shove their way to the front...
Errett McDiarmid, Rhodes adviser at the University of Minnesota, said yesterday that he hoped Lach's nomination will help to prompt revision of the Rhodes will. "Oxford is more receptive to women today than at the time when Cecil Rhodes lived," he said...
McDiarmid said that Barber had made the decision on Lach's application after consultation with the Minnesota Rhodes Committee. Lach's rejection was not unexpected, he added...