Word: searchings
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...search this spring to fill the positions being vacated by outgoing 26-year Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely '60 and Co-Master Jana Kiely--like Lowell and Leverett Houses last year and Cabot and Pforzheimer Houses the year before--followed the same general procedure...
Inevitably though, each search is influenced by many of the personalities involved--of the House, the students and tutors on the search committee, the candidates. Thus, while Lewis has composed a set of guidelines to direct the process each time a mastership becomes available, there are few hard and fast rules for evaluating master candidates...
According to Lowell House Senior Tutor Eugene C. McAfee, Lowell's master search last year involved three students and three Faculty members associated with the House's senior common room (SCR). McAfee says he allowed the House's junior common room to elect its three student representatives, while he was responsible for choosing the SCR participants...
...Another search committee participant last year said he pegged the total time commitment at about 50 hours--and said the group met with and discussed some candidates for upwards of two and a half hours...
...ethnic groups. "For example," says Shannon, "it is well known that Nigerian crime gangs controlling the heroin trade tend to use U.S. black or Nigerian women as their couriers." The Custom Service does not want to give up the practice of profiling or its right to stop and search African-American women. "What it needs to do," says Shannon, "is to develop procedures that ensure civility and good reason to search in each case" instead of simply treating every African-American woman as a possible criminal...