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...prerogative in the selection process was challenged last year when officialdom proposed that each House should contain a cross section of the student body. Finley's eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House...
Another idea would impose more supervision on the Placement Office. The office does not have a Faculty committee to oversee its operations, and, under this proposal, such a committee would...
Since the Law Record article appeared, the Law School has taken several un-official steps to study the Placement Office. A committee, formed by representatives from different Law School undergraduate organizations, has begun to look into the problem of discrimination. Specifically, it will seek to discover whether any law firms do discriminate, to find out how other law schools have handled the problem, and to make re-commendations...
...subcommittee is making a more through study of the Placement's Office's role in the Law School. Their report, however, is at least two months away...
There appear to be at least two separate questions involved in the study of possible discrimination in the Placement Office: how much -- if at all -- do the firms themselves discriminate; and how much does the Placement Office either accept, condone, or aid any existing discriminatory practices...