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...April 15th approaches, thousands of high schools students across the nation anxiously will be awaiting a letter from the Harvard-Radcliffe Admissions Office. Equally eager to see the results with be the watchdog media which has recently questioned vigorously the policies and procedures of the Admissions Office, particularly in reference to the admission of Asian-Americans...
Horner's successor must be a watchdog on the administration and must take a more active role in the University by addressing women's concerns, such as date rape, sexual harrassment and eating problems. The next president must also act to solve academic problems encountered by female undergraduates, who have been alienated by some classroom situations and concentrations. Radcliffe has ensured a place for the women's agenda on campus; it should not allow that agenda to be lost in Harvard's bureaucracy or isolated in Radcliffe Yard...
Apparently shaken by the growing attention to the safety experts' report, NASA called a press conference last week at which George Rodney, the agency's top safety official, said he had thoroughly reorganized safety and quality- control operations. This included a 30% increase in personnel assigned to these watchdog duties. A tough former test pilot and Martin Marietta official, Rodney declared that anyone with a safety complaint could now readily get the attention of key project managers...
...biggest egos of all belonged to Orson Welles, who was always seeking perfection, or better. When the 60-day shooting schedule of Welles' The Lady from Shanghai ran to 90 days, the studio sent a watchdog, Jack Fier, to speed him up. Welles erected a sign that read THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FIER IS FIER ITSELF. Not to be outdone, Fier put up his own placard: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELLES...
...area, however, is toy-inspired shows, which are criticized by children's TV activists as little more than program-length commercials. "Where is it written that Mattel should control the decision making in programming for children's TV?" says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, the watchdog group based in Cambridge, Mass. "People who want to produce children's programs with something to say instead of something to sell are zapped out of the system...