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Black students have been negotiating with the Business School to raise the minimum quota for blacks from 67 to 100, out of a first-year MBA class of 750. On Saturday, Afro met for two and one-half hours with Lawrence E. Fouraker, dean of the Business School, to discuss the admissions policy...
...Like OBU leaders, Plotke termed the University's actions as "evasive." He said that Harvard officials had contradicted themselves by offering a quota regulating hiring practices when earlier they had rejected any type of quota, from OBU or anyone else. The University's claim that 9.3 per cent of the population of Boston and Cambridge is made up of minority groups is probably only half of the actual current figure, Plotke said...
...Each Faculty member will vote for as many of the candidates as he chooses in decreasing order of preference. For each category a quota will be computed and those candidates with as many votes as the quota will be elected. The candidate with the least votes is eliminated...
Charles A, Judge. assistant admissions director for Overseas Students. said that the quota was instituted after Word War II to insure a minimum of foreign students who might not otherwise be admitted. But now the quota has the opposite effect and forces the MBA program to reject many well qualified candidates, especially from Europe and English-speaking countries, he said...
Judge said he favors eliminating the quota except for a five per cent minimum for non-English speaking countries in Asia, Africa. and Latin America-a proposal now under the consideration of the Admissions Policy Committee...