Word: baumohl
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This, say Jim Baumohl and Henry Miller, is a chain of ghettos stretching across the nation's college towns from Cambridge, Mass., via Ann Arbor, Mich., and Madison, Wis., to Santa Barbara and Berkeley, Calif. The youths who wander from one tolerant university town to the next are "street people," who bear a superficial resemblance to the hippies of the late '60s. Yet unlike the flower children (of whom only a few remain), the new group of itinerant youths have not rejected the Establishment out of ideological beliefs. They are authentically poor, and though most say they want...
...study of 295 street people in the Berkeley area, Baumohl and Miller found that the majority are young (median age: 24) white males. In general, they are poorly educated (32.5% never graduated from high school; only 9.2% from college) and, contrary to the national pattern, received considerably less education than their fathers, who, for the most part, work at blue-collar and low-level white-collar occupations...