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...NCAA point is well taken, but one must wonder whether the quota on Canadians would produce the desired effect. Wholesale importation did not begin to affect Eastern hockey, at least, until the mid-60's, when Boston University. Cornell. R.P.I., and New Hampshire followed Clarkson into Canada for their players...
...real purpose behind the quota must be elsewhere, and it may just lie in the resentment of the majority of Eastern colleges, at least, that have watched helplessly as Cornell, for example, destroyed their hockey teams year after year with almost totally Canadian rosters...
...resolution for a minority groupsadmission quota was one of several aimed at redirecting the emphasis of department curriculums. Others recommended revamping curriculums to include greater communications between planning students and residents in urban communities...
Call for Guides. The present law has a special twist for Latin Americans and Canadians. For the first time, it set a limit on their immigration (120,000 a year), but it established no job-preference guides. The quota has been oversubscribed, and more than half the applicants are domestics and other unskilled workers. One result: Canadian firms and U.S. companies doing business in Canada can no longer transfer personnel to the U.S. for training or new assignments without a long wait. The Kennedy-Feighan bill would create a preference system favoring those with skills and management ability. This would...
Congress did provide specific job criteria-along with an annual quota of 170,000-for countries outside the Western Hemisphere. The law gives first call to spouses and unmarried children of U.S. citizens. So many of them applied from certain countries, mainly Italy and the Philippines, that skilled workers were left on a 17-month waiting list. The new bill would relieve the pressure by lowering the percentage of relatives admitted, creating more openings for workers with special abilities...