Word: meds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic pre-med course--Chem 20, "Organic Chemistry"--ranks fifth...
...schools' major objection to the law is that they will have no voice in the transfer process: HEW, in fact, will summarily assign eligible students to existing openings. Med schools rarely accept transfers anyway, since very few good students tend to drop out. Thus the schools, which A.A.M.C. says have doubled their enrollment in the past decade, will be forced to fit even more students into facilities already filled to capacity. More important, many of the foreign medical schools are considered inadequate by U.S. standards, and many Americans studying medicine there are likely to be rejects from U.S. schools...
...factor in admissions circumvents what should be the true intent of affirmative action programs: helping disadvantaged individuals overcome environmental liabilities. Opening up compensatory programs to those individuals who no longer suffer the disadvantages of historic repression does little good for those who still do. Programs such as U.D. Davis Med School's quota system for non-whites should be open to all individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of their ethnic background. Flexible guidelines should replace the use of any strict quotas. While such changes would make the admissions process more difficult--requiring additional recruiting as well as a more thorough...
Construction work on the Med Area power plant, already delayed by more than a year when Harvard had to hire a new engineering firm to improve the design developed by its original firm, will not proceed beyond the foundation for at least another month...
...Wednesday before last fall's game against UMass--also the second contest of the season, also on ABC--when Curry left school quicker than a pre-med leaves the dining room...