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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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