Word: attends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these emotional boilings, however, eventually came up against these students' original desires and reasons for wanting to attend these "good schools." Thus the academic problems of these students, if they proved to be serious, were more often than not grounded in psychological confusion. For a time, it looked as if politics and psychology were inextricably mixed. It seems to some observers that as minority, particularly Black, students began to form organizations and clubs, that their insecurity and counterfidelity was reinforced by group, and indeed, very tight group, interaction. Much of the agony of conflict took the form of demands...
...same problem exists at scores of other colleges. Cornell, Stanford and Wisconsin have established special writing-improvement centers that students attend voluntarily. At Yale, for the first time since the late 1950s, "bonehead English" (basic composition) is being taught freshmen lacking the most rudimentary skills...
...King school, parents of almost all the 325 students attend monthly curriculum conferences, report-card meetings and potluck suppers with the school staff. Some 25 parents assist teachers in the school for 10 hours a week at $2.56 an hour. The program involves other expenditures for a Yale social worker and four special consultants. In all, it costs $35,000 a year. Says Dr. James Comer, the Yale psychiatrist who launched the program: "If the money isn't spent at the school level, it will ultimately be spent in far greater amounts to cope with delinquency and crime...
...particularly tense moment came on Sunday, when a black minister confronted the church elders at Carter's congregation in Plains asking permission to attend services there. The elders decided to cancel the services...
Because of my schedule I did not attend the special class, and returned Tuesday only to find Moynihan, "liking the size," had made the Wednesday change permanent. Another student described this selection method very simply: "devious." Registration was the next day. By coincidence, the change created a two-day teaching schedule for Moynihan...