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...particularly difficult to get into Manter Hall," according to the director. Applicants must take a placement test administered by the school. Hall explains rather cryptically that he would not call the school "remedial as a whole, because it is only remedial for 50 per cent of the students, but not for the others." He goes on to say "kids go through lackadaisical growing stages. Some may have done a poor job in other schools, but I'm willing to give them a chance here...
...methadone-maintenance programs (estimated savings: $18 million a year); the city department of corrections, which also duplicates state penal facilities (savings: $92 million); the municipal broadcasting system, which provides quality material but must be considered a luxury at the present time (savings: $2.4 million); vocational counseling and job placement, which is ineffective and overlaps state services (total savings: $57 million); the board of examiners, which certifies teachers already certified by the state department of education (savings: $3 million...
...directive issued September 30 the department announced that "henceforth equal consideration will be given to all colleges and universities in the placement of Defense department-funded students," whether or not they include ROTC in their program of study...
...enrollment. The entering class has since been sliced in half and overall enrollment is down from about 3000 to 2100. While the cuts were intially inspired by the fear that the GSAS had grown too large, McKinney says, the move was certainly welltimed, given the difficulties of placement, as well as the University's present financial headaches...
...inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the writing on an 8th century Koran page: the angular Kufic script done in a swordsman's strokes, decisive and muscular; the rich gold foliations round the white chapter heading; the placement of red dots, fit to make Mondriaan despair. Nevertheless, it is frustrating not to be able to read the page. (In a less exalted context, this becomes an advantage: neon signs never look more beautiful than in Arabic...