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...institution. It's not. It s an institution of learning." School-tax rebellions attest to parental dissatisfaction. Other indicators are experiments in Illinois and California with performance "contracts" between schools and parents. Example: in Oakland, teachers and parents last month signed a contract in which the teachers agreed to assign homework and parents in turn promised to provide their children with a quiet corner for studying every night...
...enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds Senior Dennis Campbell: "It's so easy to get through here. I could make it by going to classes just twice a week...
Although College officials yesterday asked the University police to assign a second Student Security Patrol guard to patrol Leverett House, the official over-seeing Harvard's student security drive said no other House committees have requested additional protection...
Bradley G. Behrman '78, chairman of the Leverett House Committee, told the committee Wednesday night meeting that "University Hall officials" had asked the police to assign a second guard to Leverett Towers, although the committee had not specifically asked for the extra protection...
Marquand said the decision to assign the second guard to Leverett, where two students were raped last month, came because officials "felt the present system was not providing adequate security...