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...shrugged off as liberal alarmist rhetoric. The University of California must rethink and retool its eligibility and admission policies to reflect the needs of an increasingly diverse state. We need to level the playing field and engage in a reassessment of our present definition of academic merit. EUGENE GARCIA, Professor and Dean Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif...
...voting to have any merit, the organizers should have publicized the nomination process much more strongly, giving an opportunity for more students to be involved and represented. Moreover, Parade of Stars organizers should have solicited responses from the appropriate community. For the arts, for example, producers, performers and critics should have been consulted; ticket sales, revenue and the opinions of the whole student body--among the actual criteria Parade of Stars will use--seem less credible measures of achievement...
...caught up in a sweeping conspiracy that included then President Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. Edgar Hoover, several army units, organized crime figures, the owner of a Memphis diner and, one presumes, space aliens. Talk about a no-win situation. If Reno decides the allegations merit creation of the new "truth" commission the family wants, she is giving credence to outlandish conspiracy theories. If she concludes there is no cause for a new probe, she is sure to be painted as part of a cover-up. Either outcome would be a mess and tragically unnecessary...
...Ellison report says two principles guided them in their decisions: the financial aid system should not under mine merit-based admissions, and departmental flexibility should be maintained...
Moreover, both groups of masters were unifiedin their position that their rejection ofMerriman's request was not meant as a "judgment onthe artistic merit of her piece...