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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent wall posters in Peking criticized the now tests as evidence of a continuing "deviation from the Maoist line of egalitarian non competitiveness" and blamed the exams on "American imperialist SAT mongering." However, the government downplayed the posters as "further counterrevolutionary critism of the regime from the notorious Gang of Four...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...this high-level politicking is far from the minds of the students themselves. Like their American counterparts, they are unable to think of anything but their test scores and whether they can get ahead in the system. With only five per cent of the applicants getting places in college, competition is fierce and anxiety abounds...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...Afro-American Studies Department should be changed to an interdisciplinary committee, the visiting committee to the department recommended in a unanimously approved report. The report's conclusions were made public yesterday in an article in The New York Times...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy and Maxine S. Pfeffer, S | Title: Visiting Committee Report Recommends Changing Afro-Am to a Committee | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...declining enrollments in Afro-American Studies courses as well as in the number of concentrators...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy and Maxine S. Pfeffer, S | Title: Visiting Committee Report Recommends Changing Afro-Am to a Committee | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

Despite the visiting committee's recommendation in the report completed last fall, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday he is committed to maintaining Afro-American Studies as a department...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy and Maxine S. Pfeffer, S | Title: Visiting Committee Report Recommends Changing Afro-Am to a Committee | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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