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Smith's departure will begin a gradual decentralization and expansion of the K-School's student job placement program, which he now runs. Under the new scheme, he faculty will have more input into career placement, which will help provide a better system of "networking" and ultimately increase job prospects, Smith said yesterday...
Smith's post as job placement director will expand to include separate positions in alumni administration, student services and job placement. The K-School has been "talking all year about changing and expanding the staff." Smith said, adding that the office has not kept pace with the school's growing enrollment over the past four years...
...terms to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who was in London. Privately, her ministers explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S. foreign policy to a European public already highly uneasy about placement of American nuclear missiles in Britain and on the Continent. Said a British government minister: "Grenada, Lebanon and now Nicaragua, again. These gung-ho displays really do not help us in defending American behavior." Said Kirkpatrick, replying to allied criticism generally: "Can we, who make a very large commitment...
...picture, he could experiment with technical effects and psychological extremes. Knowing that his audience was with him, he could take them to disturbing new places. Arguing that "it's only a movie," he could fulfill his ambition to create "pure cinema": the manipulation of universal emotions by camera placement, shot duration, the dramatic use of color, sound and editing. As two future film makers, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, wrote of the director in 1957, "In Hitchcock's work, form does not embellish content, it creates it." Hitchcock, less interested in universal theories than in the international...
...widespread discriminatory hiring patterns and practices, it is no wonder that women and minorities find it hard to take seriously the complaints of white males. No affirmative action plan--including Birmingham's--has ever sanctioned lowering standards for women and minorities; instead, they call on employers to speed the placement of qualified female and minority applicants where it has been found that past discriminatory treatment has excluded them from these jobs. Even under the Birmingham program--which has successfully improved the composition of the city's police and fire fighting forces--whites continue to be hired and promoted in greater...