Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, "power concedes nothing without a struggle," as Frederick Douglass said, and as long as the fight at Boston State continues, so does the hope that Allen and his supporters may do something to modify the educational "master plan" to make New England colleges into training grounds for the region's industries...
Thus he may soon be fighting the state and the trustees of the 11-college state system who advocate a change toward vocational education a change toward vocational education, as well as those students and teachers whom he is opposing over rehiring Allen...
...Allen's supporters, who are also protesting alleged racism, sexism, and rising tuition costs at Boston State, disrupted a meeting of the Board of Trustees of State Colleges yesterday in the hope of securing Allen's rehiring. Sylvia K. Burack, vice president of the board, said the group spoke "extremely persuasively," but that the issue must be referred to an appropriate committee, since the Board cannot make immediate decisions. Burack was tired. The meeting--"noisy, with banners and storm talk"--lasted two and a half hours...
...Allen might win his fight. But his resistance is unusual, and his success would do little to halt what he calls the "bell-shaped curve mentality" of grading and its approach to education. He sees the program of retrenchment at Boston State and at other State colleges as an indication of that mentality's increasingly victorious "attack on liberal arts education for the lower classes...
...rehiring of Henry Allen, instructor of history, who has been responsible for recruiting most of Boston's State's black students...