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Yales New Afro-American curriculum was drawn up by a special committee of professors and black students after a nine-month study. President Kingman Brewster Jr. appointed the committee last winter in response to demands of the Black Student Alliance, an organization which includes almost all of Yale's black undergraduates...
...Week was something of a coup for anti-administration radicals at Yale. Although President Kingman Brewster agreed in theory with the idea of a coeducation week, he wanted it held much later--maybe in January or February. Unable to get any immediate cooperation from "The King," a coalition formed of student government types, Yale SDS, and some of the younger college masters went ahead with plans to bring on the girls. When it became apparent to Brewster that he was being presented with Coeducation Week as a fait accompli he cut off communication with the organizers...
...Cross Country Goof Top Scorers G A PTS Alexandridis, Cornel 9 3 12 Brewster, Brown 6 5 11 Mueller, Yale 4 5 9 Davidson, Princeton 4 4 8 Irwin, Dartmouth 4 3 7 Oyekan, Yale 6 0 6 Bogovich, Harvard...
...Brewster plan calls for 500 girls to be admitted to Yale College in September; the ultimate goal is 1,500 girls, with the male enrollment staying at its present total of 4,000. Of the first 500 women, 250 will be transfer students, the other 250 will be freshmen who will take over one of the twelve undergraduate residential colleges. The results of the first year, Brewster explained, will help Yale to make basic decisions about its new coeducational status-in particular, whether the girls should have their own residential college or share buildings with Yale...
...Brewster presented the plan to the Yale Corporation only a few days before he made the announcement. The faculty got only a few hours' notice. Brewster was acting in haste, he said, because he felt that a trial would be far more instructive than "further abstract study." It is a "drastic move," he admitted, but one which, if carried out "with style and quality," will put "Yale in a position to enhance greatly its contribution to the generations ahead...