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...competition in admission for athletic stars, led the Ivy League presidents in 1979 to institute the academic index—a score assigned to recruits based on their standardized test scores and their high school class rank—that is still in place today. The presidents set a minimum score which all recruits must exceed...
...Octavius Roy Cohen and appeared in all four Herb Jeffries black Westerns of the late 30s. In 1940 he wrote and appeared in the cheapie black-cast horror movie "Son of Ingagi," He was then hired by Dallas exhibitor Al Sack to write and direct films, apparently with a minimum of front-office interference. In the 40s he made nine or ten of them: oddball melodramas ("Girl in Room 20"), low-octane jive musicals ("Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.," "Juke Joint") and - rare in race movies - religious epics "(The Blood of Jesus," "Go Down, Death," "Of One Blood...
...under the proposed system, those students who were not recommended for honors by their department could still receive honors if they had a GPA higher than the minimum required to earn magna honors of those recommended for honors by their departments...
...Faculty Council’s plan is aimed at treating the symptoms of grade inflation, not its causes. Raising the minimum grade point average for general cum laude diplomas is an appropriate move to make honors more meaningful. But this proposal could have the unintended consequence of encouraging departments to inflate their grades, in addition to denying honors to hundreds of deserving seniors each year...
...Saturday, on the eve of Carter's six-day visit, Castro came out swinging. Speaking live on state television, Castro called on U.S. officials to "present even the most minimum proof" of the allegation Undersecretary of State John Bolton made Monday. "The only thing true in Bolton's lies is that Cuba is 90 miles away from United States territory?No one has ever presented a single shred of evidence that our homeland has conceived a program that develops nuclear, chemical or biological weapons," Castro said. "The doors of our institutions are open...Cuba has absolutely nothing to hide...