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...more sheltered space than anyone in the world (except for the most imperial and ostentatious) has ever had the luxury of rattling around in. Even the American poor fall victim to a bizarre profligacy. Neolithic villagers periodically burned down their huts to incinerate their vermin; in the South Bronx people burn out their own apartments to obtain the welfare moving allowance, or landlords torch their buildings for the insurance: life among the ruins. Americans who feel sorry for themselves about their housing, middle-class Americans at least, have not explored the alternatives on the down side of civilization. Anyway, ideals...
Exceptionally rugged terrain in the second mile of the course has historically plagued Crimson harriers, but the results from this year's trip to the Bronx were extremely encouraging. Both Dixon and McNulty ran two minutes faster than they did last year, and the Crimson top three finished strong despite the jack-rabbit pace set by the Lions at the outset...
Henry Ratliff, a minister who lives in New York City's South Bronx, has been writing to The Crimson regularly for about two years...
...York, New York, a helluva town/ The Bronx is up but the Battery's down. And so it seemed last Wednesday, when the battery ran down again in Manhattan. This time the lights went out from the Battery to Wall Street through Greenwich Village and as far north as 42nd Street. The blackout came just before rush hour when a substation transformer exploded. On Wall Street, the looting was lighter than usual; the stock exchanges had to close early. The streets around Macy's and Gimbels were packed with evicted shoppers. Only the dead tired knew Brooklyn...
Almost any school system can afford some sort of portable learning aid. School District 7, in New York City's South Bronx, where every child receives a federally funded free lunch because they are all below the poverty line, has purchased several dozen TI learning aids for remedial students. Helen Giuliano, an administrator in the district, believes that exposure to computers is vital for otherwise underprivileged children: "They are starting behind in basic literacy. Let's not let them get behind in computer literacy." Such logic still fails to persuade some educational administrators. "They see computers...