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05/23/19
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
05/23/19
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
Release Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019
ACROSS
1 Analyze critically
6 Counting gadgets
11 Business address
abbr.
14 Michener novel
with astronauts
15 Answer an insult
with an insult, say
16 Short flight
17 U.S. gaming
release of 1989
19 It often follows
you
20 Ivan or Nicholas
21 Actor Chaney
22 Windy home,
probably
24 Chiffon-like
materials
28 Left the country?
31 Piccadilly Circus
statue
32 Plain text
33 Future first lady
wed in 1842
37 It’s all around us
38 Hangs on a line?
40 Word from a bull
41 Foam toy
44 Line to the
audience
46 Took the bus
47 Becomes a
burden
49 Rocky Mountains
nickname
53 Give a speech
54 Longing
55 Cheese with an
edible rind
59 Beans or baloney
60 Simple salad ...
and what the
starts of the five
other longest
answers are?
64 Aardvark snack
65 European
woman’s name
meaning “peace”
66 Safe places?
67 Caustic chemical
68 State of northeast
India
69 Temporarily
unavailable
DOWN
1 “Hey!”
2 Gibbons, e.g.
3 Music featuring
sitars
4 Often colorful
accessories
5 Neurologist’s
printout, briefly
6 “Dover Beach”
poet
7 __ Bag:
eponymous ’70s
designer label
8 Remote batteries
9 Third-century
date
10 Delivery
announcement
11 Puppeteer Lewis
12 Tire-shaped
13 They’re heavier
than foils
18 Nobelist Wiesel
23 Once, old-style
25 Poem of
homage
26 Skillful deed
27 SFO postings
28 Time period
29 Buffalo’s county
30 Irish pop group
family name
33 End of a
corporal’s URL
34 Sapporo sashes
35 “Seriously, man!”
36 Adds highlights
to, perhaps
38 Arabian arroyo
39 Words after
shake or break
42 Worry
43 Czech Republic
region
44 Likely
45 Nutrient-rich
legume
47 Winter eave
buildup
48 “Merciless” Flash
Gordon foe
49 Story lesson
50 Device common
on “Seinfeld”
51 Starbucks order
52 Spotted African
predator
56 OPTI-FREE rival
57 Contents of many
cartridges
58 To be, to Brutus
61 Apr. addressee
62 Crosses (out)
63 Slugger’s stat
FOR RENT
The College Board, responsible for
administering the SAT, announced
the addition of a new index
commonly known as an “adversity
score” in an attempt to quantify a
student’s overall disadvantage level
and help college admissions officers
gather a more complete picture of
an applicant’s background. The
University of Michigan was one of
the 50 universities and colleges who
piloted the program in the 2018-
2019 admissions process.
University
spokesman
Rick
Fitzgerald said the University plans
to continue to use the adversity score
in future admissions decisions.
“We are pleased that the College
Board is providing additional data
to institutions that support our
pursuit of better understanding
our applicants’ academic potential
and
educational
context,”
Fitzgerald wrote. “Context matters
in
understanding
the
myriad
experiences and adversities that
our students have encountered
and still achieved within. Our
admissions processes benefit from
this information.”
Officially referred to by the
College Board as the “Environmental
Context Dashboard,” the adversity
score will consider 15 factors relative
to the student’s home life, local
community and strength of school
district.
Determinants
include
poverty rate, local crime rate,
median income and the availability
of Advancement Placement classes,
among others.
Students will not be able to
view their adversity grade, and
the information considered in the
score will be based off data from
the student’s area, not individual
information. Students can receive a
score up to 100, with a higher score
representing higher adversity.
Colleges among the 50 that have
adapted this program — in addition
to the University — include Yale
College, Florida State University
and Trinity College.
Critics of the score have taken
issue with its lack of data on an
individual level, arguing it could
potentially overstate or understate
the adversity a student has faced.
Similarly, many are concerned the
score leaves out internal factors
such as stressors on both physical
and mental health.
Proponents have said, although
the score is not a perfect indicator,
it gives admissions officers a better
understanding of an applicant’s
background than they would have
had without it.
Previous trends in admissions
at the University show an increase
in economic and racial diversity.
According to an October report
by
Public
Affairs,
2018
fall
enrollment
included
a
greater
proportion of economic diversity
and
underrepresented
students
with a 14.8 percent increase in
underrepresented minorities and
6 percent increase in freshmen
enrollment from those with incomes
of $65,000 or less. This uptick also
follows the implementation of the
Go Blue Guarantee, an initiative
granting full tuition coverage for
in-state University students with a
yearly income of less than $65,000
a year.
Many
have
compared
the
adversity score to affirmative action.
Affirmative action was questioned
by some who thought it favored
people based on the color of their
skin rather than the merit of their
actions.
As decided by voters through a
2006 ballot proposal, Michigan is
one of eight states with laws making
the practice illegal.
College Board announces SAT ‘adversity score’
‘U’ confirms use of new index aimed at offering better understanding of applicants environment, challenges
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