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Members of an ad hoc committee on Med School admissions policies reported last week that they will recommend that the school retain the minority subcommittee--which screens minority group applicants--although they believe its authority should be somewhat reduced...
...revisions in the Med School admissions policy arose after the Supreme Court's decision in the Bakke reverse discrimination case, which said schools may not use race as the determining factor in admissions decisions...
After that decision, some legal experts warned that the present Med School admissions policy might not conform to the new law. Many students, however, had argued that abolition of the minority subcommittee would damage recruitment of minorities at the school...
...William Berenberg '36, professor of Pediatrics and chairman of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation's research committee, helped arrange the gift to Harvard. Berenberg said yesterday the Hearst Foundation currently supports research by two members of the Med School faculty, but this is the largest gift it has ever given to the University...
Richard J. Olendszki, associate dean for financial affairs at the Med School, said yesterday that the Med School has received grants of this size and larger in the past, but "we are very pleased with this obviously large...