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...Harvard and Radcliffe students with "Good morning, gentlemen." Activists at the University of Oregon are trying to make departments change the symbolically objectionable titles of courses like "Man and His Environment." to "The Human Environment." Stanford women are taking non-credit courses in car repair, and liberationists at Berkeley have organized informal classes in karate. The result, according to one Berkeley woman, is that "men here are a little less likely now to try something with a woman." Fifteen members of the Women's Activist Movement at Wisconsin last week marched into the university's "red gym," hitherto...
...majority of the persons attending the conference were ex-student radicals who are now organizing in various working class communities. Traditional radical centers such as New York. Cambridge and Berkeley, Calif., were represented at the conference along with less likely centers such as Pittsburgh, Baltimore. Md. Minneapolis, Minn., and Davenport, Iowa, itself...
...estrangement is not necessarily permanent; not only in Mobile, but in the integrated school systems of Riverside and Berkeley, Calif., blacks and whites have learned to work and play together without incident. Most schools report that once children of both races Develop self-confidence with one anther, interracial friendships, while not necessarily widespread, do develop In Harrisburg one small boy told his teacher: "I didn't realize there were so many white people before." At the very least students develop a certain canniness. Says Jerome Kretchmer, New York City's environmental protection administrator, whose children attend integrated schools...
...minorities improves. In Hartford's Project Concern tests have shown that black children gam up to 1.2 years' worth of reading skills in four months, while control groups of children left in the ghetto fall farther and farther below national averages. Since integration, reading scores have gone up for Berkeley primary children of all races, although not as rapidly for blacks and Chicanos as for whites and Asians. The problem for the slower students seems to be time. Says Dr. Arthur D. Dambacher of Berkeley's office of research: "The younger the youngster involved, the more positive the results?they...
...Desh," ("So many people are dyin' fast....") The mood at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor was serious. Jock Brown's "guerrilla liturgy" the first evening set the tone of searching for an awareness of each individual's complicity in the war. Jock, a minister from the Berkeley Free Church, described coming back from downtown Dayton the evening of the destruction of Hiroshima: "I don't know whether our hands were covered with blood, but our faces were covered with lipstick...