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This summer, according to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, the College will institute a pilot program of electronic ID-card access to dormitory and house entryways. The College hopes the switch will eliminate the problems of propped open entryway doors and key-copying...
John Smith, a white, scores 327 on a vocational-aptitude test. Fred Jones, a black, gets only 283. But if the two applicants are sent to a prospective employer, their test results are said to rank identically at the 70th percentile. A computer error? No. The raw score Jones earned was compared only with the marks obtained by fellow blacks. Smith's number went into a blend of scores made by whites and "others." If a Hispanic takes the same test, his raw score is converted on a third curve reserved for Hispanics only...
...studio chieftains are ostensibly tightening their belts, these films are relatively cheap to produce. Moreover, the town's eye is fixed on the lucrative Asian market, which devours ghost stories with fervor. "The Japanese love ghosts and robots. Certain cultures believe in the afterlife more than we do," explains Fred Olen Ray, president of American Independent Productions, which made Spirits, a low-budget picture, starring Erik Estrada, that will be released this summer...
...cast a gloomy shadow across the country's showrooms. "In 40 years, I've never seen people so unwilling to buy," says Gerry Oste, whose Boston Chevrolet dealership sold 2,000 cars a year during the 1980s, but now is moving only about 500. Concurs nearby Ford dealer Fred Muzi: "There's a total lack of consumer confidence out there...
...wake of last month's decision by Yale's Skull and Bones society to tap women as members, attention has increasingly focused on the future of Harvard's all-male clubs. In an interview Friday, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that if a club did decide to admit women as members, it would have to go through normal channels if it wished to be recognized again as an official student group...