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...fast in many parts of the land. On weekends, mixed couples by the dozens stroll in Manhattan's Central Park, through Chicago's Old Town and Hyde Park areas, in San Francisco's North Beach. The strongest enclave for interracial dating is the school or college campus. A poll taken recently at Detroit's Wayne State University showed that 279 out of 365 students had dated, or intended to date, members of another race. Says Jim Nabors, vice chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at Berkeley: "It's no longer avantgarde...
...Campus Leaders. What has made the difference? Some highly publicized interracial marriages have helped pave the way. The civil rights movement has recast the Negro in a heroic image. As one university counselor put it, with a measure of euphoria : "Discrimination is out of vogue. Black is no longer a color-it's a choice." It is easy to exaggerate the picture. Mixed dating is still practiced only by a small minority of the student population, and by no means on all campuses (though it is generally accepted at the biggest ones). It is virtually out in the South...
...graveyard, if only it were a little livelier. The thought of public violence in Zurich is utterly improbable. Yet last week there were student riots right in downtown Zurich- and they were just as violent as anything seen recently on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or on the Columbia University campus...
Mayhew urged administrators to confine their discipline to clearly codified academic offenses: cheating, plagiarism, misuse of equipment, damage to college property, interference with the right of others to use campus facilities. "Students," Mayhew concluded, "should have the power of self-determination over their private lives and the conduct of their own group-living...
Wallace explained, "The dorms are better off than most because of the simplicity of installing the phones. On campus, the same cables and telephone number are assigned to a room over the years. Most of the work for reconnecting a phone can be done in the central office. Also, there is less paperwork. Since we are very short on personnel, this is important...