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Back in the early 1960s, when cars were big and hair was short and families that prayed together stayed together, the Walceks said grace before meals and went to Mass every single morning. Emil and Kathleen sent their nine children to the local parochial schools in Placentia, California, and on Sunday mornings at St. Joseph's the family took up two pews...
...loyalties, mainline Protestantism and Judaism have felt by far the most pain. For Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, nearly half the children born into the church end up leaving for good. Six major denominations report a combined net membership loss of 6.2 million, to a current 22.2 million, since the mid-1960s. Despite its many problems, Catholicism has held its own. By Roof's survey, 70% of those raised as Jews have dropped out, a disastrous loss that coincides with low birthrates, a steep increase of intermarriage with non-Jews, and the slim odds that children from such marriages will...
Mansfield said professors in the 1960s were reluctant to give C's to the increasing number of Black students on campus, thus inflating the grades of all students...
College officials said this week the number of Black students increased slightly during most of the 1960s, reaching 55 in 1968. The next year, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and a strong minority recruitment effort, Black enrollment began to increase at a much faster pace...
Over the past few months, Mansfield has linked grade inflation to the increased enrollment of Black students in the 1960s and '70s. He told Harvard Magazine that inflation occurred because "many white professors were unwilling to give C's to Black students, so they also wouldn't give C's to white students...