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Tatrallyay won 24 tournament bouts in three days of NCAA action to capture fourth place in the national epee competition. Only the top six performers in the NCAA's attain All-American status...
...today's world. As the distinguished American Anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, once put it, "To give the Negro an appreciation of his past is to endow him with the confidence in his own position in this country and in the world which he must have and which he can best attain when he has available a foundation of scientific fact concerning the ancestral cultures of Africa and the survival of Africanism in the New World". There is no question that when such a body of facts is firmly and scientifically established, it can create an intellectual ferment that, when popularly diffused...
...problem, however, is of a more deeply rooted nature. The University's support--both philosophic and financial--is essential to the success of People Switchboard. But active student interest is necessary to attain the Administration's backing and the eventual implementation of progressive educational goals. Such student initiated support has been minimal...
...made, three options were open. The Switchboard could continue as it had on the original $1500, which was rapidly being exhausted. This action, or rather non-action, would inevitably lead to the death of the project in June. The second possibility was to reconfront Bok in an effort to attain University financial support, a request which Bok had already rejected. These first two options were ruled...
However, the struggle for survival had only begun. As their funds grew smaller, Gensler's and Farago's futile endeavors to attain adequate monetary support grew more frustrating. They soon became angered by their roles as fund-raisers. A memorandum dated January 7, 1972, regarding the future of People Switchboard, was sent to President Bok, Dean Dunlop, Dean May, Dean Whitlock and Steve Farber. The memo--co-authored by Farago, Gensler, Louise Nemschoff and Jim Kessler--stated, "We have come to a critical point in the evolution of People Switchboard." The letter explained the necessity for the continuation and extension...