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Section: November 1997
They're talking on campus. . .
... about UCLA's requirement that each of the 1,000 classes offered by the College of Letters and Science this quarter have its own site on the World Wide Web. Students will be able to access the syllabus for every course and link to supplemental course materials, such as a three-dimensional model of a strand of DNA or a statue of Apollo and Daphne.
For a sample offering visit: www2.humnet.ucla.edu/webx?14@^4037@.ee6b8dd
... about a finding that students admitted under affirmative-action policies to the University of California at Davis's medical school had "remarkably similar" graduation rates and performance reviews in residency to students who were admitted under standard criteria. For more info, visit the Journal of the American Medical Association at: www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_278/no_14/joc6c12a.htm.
