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...with bowings that evidently left the first violins non-plussed. Despite impressive third movement efforts by trumpeter Norman Birge and oboeist Jack Klebanow and crisp second movement development work by pianist Judy Kogan, the winds were swept along by the tide of mediocrity, while the percussion section combined poor placement (along the left wall of the Sanders stage) with ill-chosen dynamic levels...
...permanent adjunct of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that is taken by roughly 1.4 million students each year. Further, the board will reinstitute a 20-minute essay section in the present English Composition Achievement Test, one of 15 exercises taken annually by some 300,000 college applicants seeking course placement. The essay option, which was dropped in 1971 because of the relatively high costs of grading it, will return in December next year. Colleges can only hope that both C.E.E.B. actions will, to quote from another M.S.U. student's paper, "ease there pain...
...WHEN THE PLACEMENT COMMITTEE decided--after what was apparently an extremely stormy four-hour meeting--to recommend the dean announce that Bowman acted in good faith, just about everyone was satisfied. All they wanted, one student said after the meeting, was a Record headline telling Law School alumni that the students had won their fight--a fight against an administration they felt had more faith in law firms run by alumni than in the law students themselves...
...conspiracy against them: that the administration ganged up with the reporter to destroy Bowman's credibility, and that of the anti-administration groups backing her. That appears unlikely. But the fact remains that the administration moved this summer to cut down the number of student members on the Placement Committee, reinforcing a feeling that the school would rather avoid student-initiated controversy that could damage its ability to rely on firms for donations. The school denies the move was anything but an effort to cut the membership for efficiency's sake--but to the students involved in the Bowman case...
...would deny that for many students at the Law School the Bowman incident was unimportant. Most students now say the only real problem with the Placement Committee is that their computer broke recently, screwing up the assignment of times for recruitment interviews. But for those few students who want to increase their input into the school, the issues the Bowman case brought into the open--questions of where the school puts its priorities and how it acts on them--are not dead...