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...major programs have brought black students to Harvard this summer: the Intensive Summer Study Program (ISSP) and the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO). The ISSP program is designed to encourage black students to attend graduate school. The students receive full scholarships for a summer, and also get money in lieu of summer earnings. They are required to take at least four credits, and participate in an independent study seminar related to their discipline...
...home and start it cooling in five minutes. Another reason for the rush, manufacturers say, is propaganda and pressure on parents from their children. Says William B. Clemmens, manager of General Electric's room-air-conditioner division: "Our children are raised in an air-conditioned culture. They attend air-conditioned schools, ride air-conditioned buses. You can't really expect them to live in a home that isn't air-conditioned." The result is that 18 million American homes, or 31% of the total, have some sort of air conditioning today v. only 9% a decade...
...Washed Shores. Back in 1841, Cook's started out as a temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this pioneering...
...premise that natives ought to be first Westernized, then educated. Despite the fact that political leaders fulminate against the West and neocolonialism, the universities' goal remains the same. In Uganda (pop. 6,845,000), where per capita income is $8 a year, students at Makerere University College attend Oxford-style "Old Boy" dances, eat in for mal dining halls, and join in such rousing un-African activities as squash, cricket and rugby. Nowhere on the campus is there evidence of Africa's rich musical, artistic and folk heritage...
...engineers. Educators of all kinds are in short supply, but nearly half of the Makerere graduates who have been trained to be teachers refuse to enter the classroom, instead try to join the already ample civil service. In a country where only five in more than 1,000 youths attend college, quantity would seem to be as important as quality, but Makerere maintains a luxurious 8-to-l student-faculty ratio. Uganda's President Milton Obote, a Makerere graduate, has accused the university of being "uninvolved with the needs of our society...