Word: mayer
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Brinkley, the protagonist in Robert Mayer's comical novel Superfolks, was sinking into complacent and oh-so-comfortable middle class, middle age life on Swansdown Island, a "suburban pocked" retreat outside New York. Beneath his happily married, proud-daddy exterior, he was helplessly wondering why his superpowers were inexplicably vanishing...
...Mayer, an authority on nutrition, said yesterday a study he conducted at Radcliffe and Wellesley showed that overweight women are one third as likely to be admitted as women of average weight, despite comparable grades, board scores and recommendations...
Overweight men faced less discrimination, but still have only two-thirds the normal chance of being admitted, Mayer said. Although the study was done in the 1960s, he believes the results are still valid, he said...
...discrimination is a result of a negative impression overweight people tend to make on interviewers, Mayer said. In colleges like Berkeley which do not interview applicants, there is no discrimination, he added...
College admissions departments discriminate against overweight applicants, Jean Mayer, president of Tufts University, told a conference of Tufts alumni this weekend...