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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January statement indicated, we have increased the number of admitted Asian Americans every year for over a decade, from 4.8 percent of the freshman class in 1978 to 14.3 percent this year. In part, these increases result from our recruiting efforts. Contrary to the suggestion in the editorial, the percentage of Asian American students has not remained between 10 and 12 percent. There is no support in the data for an assertion that we use quotas for the admission of Asian American students. William R. Fitzsimmons Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Marlyn McGrath Lewis Director of Admissions Susie...
...depth of character--is defined almost solely by academic performance. Determinants such as grades, scholarships and SAT scores are used as the definitive barometers of an individual's ability to think and reason, more than as measures of what has been learned in a classroom. This has the unfortunate result of making intelligence only a matter of education, and downplays the roles of wit, imagination and curiosity as equal indications of intelligence and character not generally measured by cold academic statistics...
...country's debt crisis has also forced the government of outgoing president Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado to pursue a widely unpopular austerity program to revitalize the private sector. Social services such as health, education and nutrition have deteriorated or stagnated during the last few years, as a result...
...result of the large number of people giving blood, donors should expect to wait about an hour and a half to finish the process, Murdoch said...
...grander and far more controversial. The boyish moneyman with the tousled toupee and the obsessive work habits has almost single-handedly sparked the frenzy of takeovers and buyouts that has given the Roaring Eighties their name. And his tactics along the way may put him behind bars as a result...