21.   Eyad Ismail enrolled in a computer program at the University of Zarqa, a new school just west of Amman that had eased admission standards to attract students.

22.   Gone are the days when the managers of poorer-performing European economies could urge that the strict admission standards to the single-currency zone be circumvented.

23.   Grades did rise, but not dramatically, and it was largely due to Harvard setting higher admissions standards, according to university memos from the period.

24.   He has also embraced a faculty initiative to tighten admissions standards even further than mandated this week by the Higher Education Coordinating Council.

25.   He points to a tightening of admissions standards, an increase in merit scholarships and an ongoing examination of the Fitchburg curriculum.

26.   His lawyers said he had been speaking out about lax admissions standards at the university.

27.   However, he did come out strongly for even higher admission standards.

28.   In the last two years, for example, it has raised its admission standards.

29.   It also comes just four months before new rules go into effect at the state colleges and UMass limiting remedial education and raising admissions standards.

30.   Jackson is to address a rally sponsored by a student group, which opposes the court decision that outlawed race-based admission standards in Texas.