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...Ralph Nadar's organization to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have raised serious doubts about the test makers' claims, but policies here at Harvard and elsewhere haven't changed significantly as a result. Two leading critics of the SAT, and of ETS itself, are Harvard-affiliated doctors Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter, who have combined their respective backgrounds in computer medicine and psychology to produce a detailed critique of the test and its administrators. Their most important research on the issue appeared last year in the Harvard Educational Review, but Slack began the campaign in 1977 with...
...benefactors. Says Brian O'Connell, president of Independent Sector, a coalition of 335 corporations and philanthropies: "I'd hate to turn off a President who's trying to encourage voluntary activity, but he should not exaggerate: we can't pick up all the slack...
...idea, Olrich said, was "to take up the slack on racing in the fall." In the first Head of the Charles--the first head race in the country--100 boats took part. At first, Olrich said, the Ivy League refused to allow rowers to participate, afraid it would set a dangerous precedent for off-season competition. And so, ever resourceful, Harvard oarsmen formed independent rowing clubs (usually associated with their Houses, Olrich said) to enter boats in the Head. The league's athletic directors relented, and so rowers can now represent Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Slack attributed the win to the Winthrop offensive line's superior performance. "For me, it was just a matter of getting the ball to the receiver. I always had a lot of time to throw...
Three Winthrop stalwarts were injured during the first set of downs, and Slack--who has played one previous year of House ball--added that he was very pleased with the team's ability to rebound from its personnel losses. "This was the best Winthrop game I have been involved...