Word: blumstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean Epps: When a Crimson reporter asked Brown University Dean of Student Life John M. Robinson to describe Dean of Brown College Sheila Blumstein's job, he said it was similar to the role of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 at Harvard. When asked about his own job moments later, Robinson said it was most similar to Harvard's Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. However, he added quickly, "I hope I'm not like Epps...
...opposite extreme, some liberal educators question the value of imposing a universal curriculum for students. It would be impossible to define a "single program of study that is good for everyone," says Dean of Brown College Sheila E. Blumstein, given the variation of student abilities and interests...
...Blumstein says a core, absent at Brown, takes away from students the decision of what constitutes a liberal education...
Since the highest involvement in crime occurs among young men from the ages of 15 to 18, urbanologists like Alfred Blumstein of Pittsburgh's Carnegie- Mellon University expected the crime rate to decline along with the number of teenagers. The tail end of the baby boom reached age 16 in 1977, and Blumstein predicted that the crime rate would top out a few years later, followed by a peak in the prison population as the younger hoods got enough convictions to land in jail. Sure enough, after 1980 the crime rate began declining on schedule, and the U.S. prison population...
That trend, though, seems to have reversed itself: the crime rate rose again in 1985 and early 1986. Blumstein offers this explanation: while there are fewer young males generally, there has been a disproportionate increase of males in the underclass. This group, with all its attendant ills of poverty, alienation and broken homes, is particularly prone to criminal behavior. "What we're seeing," says Blumstein, "is a changing social-class composition, and crime correlates with social class...