Word: appalachia
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...future of American higher education lies not only in the ivy-covered buildings of Cambridge and Berkeley but also in the bayous of Louisiana, asphalt jungles of Harlem, and the mountains of Appalachia. The challenge of educating the impoverished is being met by men like Dr. Thomas Johns of Pikeville College. The student reaction shows how difficult the challenge really...
...moved cautiously. The miners and their natural ombudsmen, their union leaders and politicians, were and are scared to speak out in favor of compulsory reforms that might force coal prices up and out of the market-and cost the men virtually the only secure employment in job-scarce Appalachia, where most of the mines are located...
...students are restless at Kentucky's Pikeville College, a small (enrollment: 1,200) Presbyterian-supported school in the heart of Appalachia. But not for the usual reasons. Oddly enough, the dissidents are protesting long-haired professors, women teachers in miniskirts, and a liberal president who wants to give students more freedom and make their education more relevant...
Mostly Illegal. Mullins' conviction-the first under Virginia's snake-handling law in 21 years-was a reminder that the use of serpents in worship is still alive in the mountain villages of Southern Appalachia. Across rural Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, dozens of small fundamentalist churches regularly include the handling of rattlers or copperheads as part of their services. How many snake handlers there are is not really known. Generally they are as secretive as moonshiners, and for much the same reason: the cult is illegal except in West Virginia...
...white ones" seem to be more a figure of speech than a reality. In Appalachia there might be a large scale white-poverty problem, but not in Alabama. It is no coincidence that in the state where less than 40 per cent of the population is black, nearly 97 per cent of the people who are poor are black...