Soc Stud Considers Admitting Waitlist On Basis of Sex

The Social Studies faculty is presently considering a policy of admitting waiting list applicants on the basis of sex, the concentration's head tutor said yesterday.

In an effort to maintain a quota of female concentrators, the concentration may fill spots vacated by already admitted women only with other women, Robert L. Amdur said.

Although Amdur said the policy is still indefinite. Kirsti Gamage, the concentration's secretary, is informing inquiring students that the policy is definite.

"The point of the policy would be affirmative action for women, if women turn us down at a higher rate than men," Amdur said.

He added that the Social Studies faculty does not expect to have to turn to the waitlist.

History and Lit, another selective concentration, does not use a waiting list or a sex quota because it admits students three times during the academic year, James D. Wilkinson, the concentration's head tutor, said last week.