Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representatives say they fear the law, and similar proposals in other states, because it may increase the costs of administering the tests. After all, if the tests are public, the service won't be able to recycle questions, forcing someone to sit down every year to write new analogies. Considering the amount of money "non-profit" ETS clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability...
...law should go even further and require ETS to make available any ETS data that would allow outside individuals to evaluate the tests. But as it stands, the law is a big step forward, which ETS and the various College Boards should not hinder with limited testing, higher prices or boycotts...
...Reaction from admissions officials to the law and subsequent scraps have been muted. Medical School admissions director Dr. Ogles by Paul was unavailable for comment. His secretary said Paul "has refused to talk to the press about this." At the Law School, where there is no danger of a test boycott, admission director Molly Geraghty says, "people are paying attention to it. But, what we are mainly doing is sitting and waiting, and I think you will find much the same thing is true at other schools and universities." In any event, the LSAT will still be required, at least...
Meanwhile, everyone is watching with interest. "We're waiting to see how the law turns out," truth-in-testing advocate McLean says. "We won't know anything definite until the law goes into effect January 1," admissions official Geraghty declares, "We need to see how this works out before we go ahead and do it on a larger scale," pleads ETS's Churchill. Only Malkin is making concrete predictions: "It should be interesting," he says...
That, according to Law Professor Roger Fisher '43, is how foreign policy should be made. And it's this type of policy-making that Fisher teaches in his popular course, Social Sciences...