Word: meds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the House systems subcommittee who wished to remain unidentified said seniors were excluded from the room exchange program because they might use the program to get to know better pre-med or pre-law advisors...
...compliance with a controversial new law that "infringes our autonomy on admissions," the Medical School this year accepted seven transfer students from foreign medical colleges rather than forego $950,000 in federal grants, Dr. Oglesby Paul'38, director of admissions at the Med School, said yesterday...
...Bakke decision might have been different if the Court had come down strongly for or against affirmative action. But the Court's wishy-washiness, combined with the fact that no Harvard graduate program except the Med School has a special minority admissions structure, meant that the Bakke decision hit the University's graduate admissions like a pebble plopping into sand...
...Med School, however, Bakke has probably sounded the death knell for the minority admissions subcommittee. Oglesby Paul's original proposal for its elimination did a bureaucratic shuffle last May into a review committee surveying the whole of admissions at the Med School. The Third World and minority students thought then that they had won at least another year for the sub-committee--assuming that the bureaucracy would creep at its usual petty pace...
...that the issue has come down to the timing of changes, the subcommittee's own demise can't be far off. In its particulars, the subcommittee could hardly have been more different from the UCDavis structure that the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. Instead of quotas and separate admissions, the Med School's subcommittee only screened minority applicants and made recommendations to the full admissions committee. There were goals, but no hard-and-fast numbers. So it's not a threat of possible "reverse discrimination" lawsuits from rejected applicants that has spurred changes; rather the Supreme Court's profound waffling...