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...tutorial—a required course for all sophomore government concentrators—is advising teaching fellows in the course that no more than one fifth of all students should receive a grade of A or A-. We strongly disapprove of Mansfield’s imposition of a grade quota on his captive audience of students, and we urge the government department to step in to oversee grading in the course...
...race against Democrat Harvey Gantt when he ran an ad showing a pair of white hands crumbling a job application. The famous tag line: "You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" Helms defeated Gantt, who is black, despite considerable opposition from voters in the state?s liberal Research Triangle area...
...growing ranks of retired people. As a result, an expert panel on immigration is scheduled to unveil a sweeping plan next month. According to press leaks, the panel will recommend giving out 20,000 permanent work permits and a further 20,000 temporary visas a year based on a quota system that will include education, family size and language skills in evaluating potential applicants...
...push for equal admissions had a great deal of support from undergraduates, male and female alike. In the 1972 Commencement ceremonies, 70 percent of the graduates attended with red armbands over their black robes to protest the quota system of admissions...
...Strauch Committee, formed by President Bok to study admissions policies, recommended a merged, non-quota admissions policy in the spring of 1973, and it was formally adopted for the Class of 1980. As the Class of 1976 prepared to graduate, the admissions office proudly announced that the ratio of the matriculating students in the Class of 1980 was the lowest ever...