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...next few decades, Columbia became the school it is today, complete with a large uptown campus. But with an admissions process that discrimated against immigrant Jews and other lower-class New Yorkers, Columbia's student body did not represent the city's changing population. Under reactionary University president Nicholas Butler, Columbia had to become more wily...
...numbers of Jewish students increased, Columbia, in concert with other leading private universities, redifined academic prestige. Butler developed the notion of 'selective admission,' a concept that turned the old basis of prestige on its head. Now the sign of leadership was the number of qualified students turned away...
Columbia's grappling with a socially changing America is not just a story of Jewish quotas, a topic which has become a fad of late. Rather, it tackles larger questions of knowledge and power. Butler is not a singularly bad figure; however, he strove to make City College a better school so that immigrants wouldn't be denied a decent education, just denied a Columbia education...
...movie, Prick Up Your Ears, has done much to introduce Orton to the U.S., it's only been in the last two years that his plays have been produced in America. There was a successful run of Loot off-Broadway this past year, and his acclaimed masterpiece, What the Butler Saw, has enjoyed stage-time in Harvard's own Loeb Ex and in New Hampshire. Now Bostonians can delight in a short one-act Orton gem, The Erpingham Camp, done with great energy and skill by Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Theatre...
Ferocious pit bulls can be seen any day with their drug-dealer owners on the corner of Ninth and Butler streets in North Philadelphia. The dogs, with names like Murder, Hitler and Scarface, wear metal-studded collars concealing crack and cocaine and the day's proceeds. They are equally visible on Chicago's West and South sides, where teenage boys have taken to brandishing their fierce pit bulls just as they would a switchblade or a gun. "It's a macho thing, like carrying a weapon," says Jane Alvaro of the Anti-Cruelty Society...