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Finally, Question 1 will eliminate the majority quota of hunters on the Fisheries and Wildlife Board which is supposed to manage wildlife for all of us. How does purchasing a hunting license make one qualified to set wildlife policy? I would rather have professional biologists and environmental scientists on this board so that the decisions are based on sound science, not the desire to satisfy trappers and hunters...
...music, not turning it on. When Renton's going into withdrawal, you know from the muted, beta-wave techno beat that it'll be a typical, painless cold turkey exercise in fantasy: he'll be fine, whatever the psychedelic hallucinations. It's as if the filmmakers had some quota to fill for the movie's soundtrack album...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, tried unsuccessfully in 1922 to impose a quota on Jewish admissions...
...truly enrich Harvard, the spots which we tenuously reserve in a "non-quota" manner for minority students should be given to those who really do need the "appropriate consideration." There are exceptions we should be making more of. Instead of giving the benefit of the doubt to under-represented minorities, a lower GPA can be accepted for a student who worked 15 hours a week to help her parents maintain the family; for a Vietnamese refugee with a lower verbal SAT score; for a student from rural West Virginia (where there are no science research institutions to do a junior...
...There is no hidden racism in me," said Dornan, who opposes quota-oriented affirmative action but supports some other forms...