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Fifty-three of the 95 students who applied last month were allowed to transfer, Susan A. Neer, housing officer for the College, said. Whether student requests were approved depended on the applicant's seniority, each house's independent selection process, and the attrition rate of the original house, she added...
Some House officials said the principal reason motivating transfer requests was the desire to be near friends. Other cited the need to live closer to activities; one called "disatisfaction with the houses they are in" the major reason. "I once had an applicant who said he wanted to get away from the city and move to the suburbs," Shirley Broner, assistant to the master of South House, said...
Although all freshmen are assigned to their houses by lottery, the transfer process varies widely from house to house. Mather, for example, uses a "blind" method; Eliot and Lowell use what Neer called a "more personal" system of mandatory interviews...
...what the State of the Union message this week is designed to do. The speech will place more emphasis on the states than the union. Its cornerstone is a sweeping proposal for a "New Federalism," which goes far beyond concern over budget and tax levels and aims to transfer important government functions from Washington to state capitals, beginning in fiscal...
...stinging 24-page opinion, Judge Terence Evans said: "He was rough, sometimes careless. He did not possess good medical judgment." The Air Force transfer from Lackland to Milwaukee, the judge suspected, was a way "to get Dr. Stanford off its hands for a while to prohibit scandal and further dissension among the doctors." The $1.8 million award must be paid by the Government under existing law. As for Stanford, he has retired from the military and practices at the highly rated Miami Heart Institute. Myers is now surgeon general of the Air Force, its top-ranking medical officer...