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Show By Pr. Max Rafferty CaLGroua Super.rtendent of Public Instrui'ticn You le an Olympic Hark coach. You can take orly n en to throe loOyardda-- n the Game f Yet you find you have six sprinters vy mg for the three places on the team. How do you setle the problem? 0 b x ious-1- , 1 you reply Dr. by the Rafferty three- who can nin fsstPvt " WeB, it may be nbvmus in you. but it isn't obviou- - at all to the University of Illinois Last fall on one of its cam that be got puses. the pc-.er- s to worrying that the school was becoming an "elitist" institution. (TRANSLATION: Too many A students were being admitted ip comparison to B wasn't enough roomer all who qualified, so students were being the a dm in preference to thosejailh lower grades. This, it wasjfeared, was making the iimvfity just too smart for Its ow$ good. Lottery System So what did the Illinois powers do about it? Why, after a tertajJ amount of agonized lea ppeaising, they instituted a lottery. system, what else? Out of the 4.137 applicants who qualified for admission 3.350 were Admitted and '847 rejected bVlottery. This meant that a lot $f B students were accepted and a lot of A students got fined down, and tf this soundij like sheet, blithering cretiiwm to you, it does to taking $ ld me i, based on competition. the neiham-torough wbkh man channeled hi instinctive drive toward excellence. If competition is to be artifiu-llkilled off it becomes neceasaiy to supply sortie other dev he to accomplish the sueernrs and th.e weeding out w ha h must Mill be done, and blind chain must then be lulled upon a la Illinois, lt.-e- lf Its m Luck of the Draw This is a ph'losophv worthy Ijs Vegas, but hardly to be expected in a great university. If the luck of the draw is to determine who shall go to coiiece, then Nick the Gteek would be the first one in. A footnote should be appended to this strange story of academic roulette. 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