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...past eight months, hundreds of students at Ivy League colleges have listened raptly to the unlikeliest of campus recruiters: a cop. New York City Police Sergeant David Durk, 35, comes on in a button-down shirt, loafers and blunt idealism. "If the thought of seeing a problem on the street and doing something about it appeals to you," he told Harvard undergraduates recently, "become a cop." Surprisingly large numbers of students seem eager to try changing the world in blue uniforms. Most of Durk's recruits are headed for Washington, but scores of others have signed up to take...
...understand, as the young cannot, why the older generation is afraid, and more sadly, why it is resentful of those who seem to have everything but gratitude. To both young and old, we are almost invisible. The young often see us as the cop-outs-as the shorthaired, button-down junior exec or the suburban housewife in a station wagon -and many of us are. Our parents and older brothers and sisters often see us as the fellow travelers of the youthful enemy, which many...
CHARLES ELIOTT, 40, owns a successful business in Los Angeles. In the den of his $60,000 house he has a bronze profile of Abe Lincoln on the wall and a copy of Playboy on the coffee table. Wearing faded chinos and a button-down Oxford shirt, he looks far more subdued than the average Hollywood male; he might be the happily married coach of a college basketball team-and a thoroughgoing heterosexual. In fact, his male lover for the past three months has been a 21-year-old college student. He says: "I live in a completely gay world...
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Jumping Rope. There is nothing button-down about their teaching. Barry Ernstoff, 22, a Columbia graduate and N.Y.U. Law student, jolted his students one day by jumping rope with them. "Teachers don't jump rope," one boy scolded. Ernstoff explains: "We've got to humanize ourselves. Black kids are cynical about any white person's caring for them, and little by little, through affection and honesty, we've got to break that down." He repeatedly makes deliberate mistakes on the blackboard, enticing his pupils to spot them. "Some of these kids learn not to question white...