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...Biological Determinism." The course was modeled as closely as possible on the uniform-grade system that Lewontin has used in his other course. Biology 152, "Population Genetics," with a few concessions to those students who, Lewontin says, "through no fault of their own--for reasons of med school or law school-have...
FASARGENT CHEEVER 32, who chaired a committee reviewing Medical School admissions policies, says that the recommendations the committee made to the Med School faculty last week regarding the equal admissions of men and women amount to an attempt to "let nature have its chance to work a balance here." Cheever explains that although the report mentions no quotas, it envisions a period when men and women will apply in equal numbers to the Med School and when the accepted class will reflect, in its ratio of men to women, the proportion of qualified men to qualified women in the applicant...
...cent female. But if, as the Cheever report urges, recruitment measures are introduced, and the number of women applicants increases to parity, there is no guarantee here that the class will contain equal numbers. Dr. Leon Eisenberg, chairman of the admissions committee, says that constituencies in the largely male Med School faculty that would oppose one-to-one admissions are now "underground," but are likely to surface before such a policy would be implemented. The Cheever report should have gone further, by recommending a one-to-one admissions policy...
...math, many of the most able students at Harvard fear or hate thinking with numbers so much that they cannot evaluate some of the most important works of our time. Part of the problem may be that, at this school, anything mathematical smacks too much of the dreaded pre-med courses. Worse, "thoughtful" courses in the social sciences often cover the feeblest exclusively verbal epigones of Mars but not far more important works by thinkers like Paul Baran, who are articulate both with words and numbers. Too often, students are taught that they should think thoroughly before looking at facts...
HARVARD Medical School Dean Robert H. Ebert has hopes of balancing the budget this year at the cost of committing his students to stints of national service in "needy areas." Ebert says that the Med School will gain one million dollars in federal funds if Congress passes health manpower legislation that would give a contracting medical school from $2100 to $3000 per student per year...