Word: poole
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When the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) released a report last spring highly critical of the University's record in hiring minority faculty members, administrators and affirmative action officials responded with a familiar refrain: it's a problem with the national pool...
...University contended that the number of minority faculty members will never increase until there is a dramatic growth in minority Ph.D. candidates from whom it draws its new recruits. But to those critical of the administration, the emphasis on the "pool" is merely a way of avoiding the immediate and serious problem of Harvard's failure to hire minority professors...
While they acknowledge that the focus on the pool may reflect underlying problems hampering minority recruitment, they add that without new minority appointments now, the pool will likely remain small...
Last year, there were 238 minority applicants (excluding Asians) and of that group 48 students, or 21 percent, were admitted. Today, 37 of the 48 admitted will register, thus making the minority yield of 77 percent far higher than the 56 percent acceptance rate among the total applicant pool...
...work, freshmen may find it hard to make time to play and develop the friendships that are supposed to last through the 50th reunion. "It's a whirlwind," says Pamela Haber, a University of Michigan sophomore. "You make friends, you drop them." Many find that having an entirely new pool of classmates is a greatly liberating experience. Hated nicknames are finally shed, new affectations can be tried on and discarded. "Nobody has to know that you were shy in high school," says Veronica Lawson, 18, a Rhodes sophomore who counsels freshmen. "I tell freshmen that this is a new beginning...