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...desegregation plan, after his court-ordered forced busing touched off street violence and massive school absenteeism last fall. Now Garrity hopes that the magnet schools will offer good enough programs to induce white students from South Boston, for example, to go (by either special bus or public transportation) to a school in Roxbury's black ghetto. To that end, some 20 Boston-area colleges and universities are developing special courses for magnet schools...
Harvard will come to Roxbury next year, as formulated last March in the Masters' Plan for Boston School Desegregation, which pairs almost every Boston-area university with a city high school...
Certainly, Dudley is no longer the commuter House it used to be. In fact, it has a smaller percentage of Boston-area residents (3 percent) than any of the other Harvard Houses. Of those Dudley affiliates from the local area, most were admitted to Harvard or Radcliffe on condition that they be non-resident students...
...desegregation next fall. The plan that has the most substantial support would require suburbs with declining enrollments and empty school seats to take students from Boston. Such a plan-involving voluntary, one-way busing-was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature last month; it has the backing of new Governor Michael Dukakis and Boston Mayor Kevin White. It would involve relatively small numbers of students and would not significantly change the racial balance of Boston-area schools...
Three hospitals which teach Harvard Medical School students agreed Thursday to merge into one hospital corporation in order to provide comprehensive health care for Boston-area residents...