Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June after a six-year stint (including one year as director of security) with the department of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A seven-member committee of administrators, professors, the acting police chief and a student at the Law School chose Chafin from a pool of 200 applicants one year after the position was vacated. Joe B. Wvatt, vice president for administration and a member of the search committee, says the committee selected Chafin because of his blend of urban and university police experience, each of which earned him impressive recommendations. "In his interviews, he demonstrated...
...thing in minority admissions and recruiting, according to Jewett, is to attract a large pool of talented applicant from minority backgrounds. The College admits about 17 per cent of all those who apply. Therefore, for every six applicants, about five must be rejected, even though four might be "admissible" judging by their talents. In short, if the pool of talented "admissable" minority applicants is low, minority admissions will suffer...
Then there is "diversity." Jewett defines the operation of this concept as "trying to attract into the applicant pool people who wouldn't normally apply; people from socio-economic backgrounds whose horizons wouldn't normally include Harvard." As far as quotas are concerned, "diversity as practiced at Harvard has no quotas, says Jewett. "There is no downside protection for the percentages of minorities in any class," he says, adding that the percentages of any group depends largely on their percentage in the applicant pool...
Obviously not. Churning through the pool built by Adolf Hitler for the 1936 Olympics, Caulkins won five gold medals and broke four world records in the process. Her most dramatic victory came in the 400-meter medley over former Record Holder Ulrike Tauber, 20, who won the gold medal in Montreal. The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns?the test of the compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter...
...reminds him of his own dead collie, the only female who never deserted him. He produces papers proving that Lassie is really his and takes her, growls and all, to his mansion in Colorado. She outwits him, however, dumps him into his swimming pool, and runs away?a long, long way to California. She climbs up mountains and falls down mountains, crosses deserts, rivers and seemingly impenetrable barriers, and rescues a kitten from a flaming inferno. Does she make it back to California and her family? Well, you'll just have to see the movie...