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...special permission to hire qualified minorities and women for whom they do not have positions available. While some administrators hailed the recommendations as substantial departures from current practices, several Faculty members criticized the report at a February Faculty meeting, saying that it emphasized statistics and seemed to establish a quota system for hiring women and minorities. Despite the protestations, Dean Rosovsky quietly implemented the changes during second semester...
...students with prior grades and test socres somewhat below those of other applicants whome we must run aside... This does not mean that we should admit persons who are not well qualified to meet our academic standards, nor does it mean that we should fix some predetermined goal or quota for minority students or for any other category or group. All applicants must be evaluated as individuals, and attention must be paid in each case to all of the characteristics and qualities that relate to our educational goals. In making these assessments, however, we cannot rely exclusively on prior grades...
...Review staff voted in February to adopt an affirmative action system. A few days after the vote, three Review staff voted in February to adopt an affirmative action system. A few days after the vote, three Review staffers resigned in protest, calling the new procedure a quota system. Shortly thereafter, the Review staff voted to adopt a different affirmative action plan, under which selection would be based on merit rather than quotas...
...fairly and to match students to tasks they prefer, the pressure grows too great for some: the dropout rate among first-year students at Blackburn is a moderately high 33%, some of it due to dislike of work, academic and otherwise. In addition to attending classes and meeting their quota of chores, students are expected to spend 30 hours weekly in course preparation outside the classroom. Sixty percent of Blackburn's freshmen were in the top third of their high school classes. A respectable 28% of seniors enter graduate school. The number of graduates who go on to earn...
Foreign Car Imports. While diplomats in Tokyo and Washington politely fence over a "voluntary" import quota of Japanese cars to the U.S., support is growing in Congress, especially in the Senate, for a mandatory limit of 1.6 million cars annually (almost 1.9 million Japanese cars were sold in the U.S. last year). A dedicated believer in free trade, Reagan may soon find himself in a nasty squabble with Congressmen from big auto-industry states, especially if domestic car sales continue...