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...Torhorst and Bob Kidder, who played one and two as freshmen last year, and Bob Schnitz, a junior, will join Holton, Sinclair and the returning letter winners for spring practice in Charleston, S.C., beginning April 1. Seven of these ten will win permanent positions after trials in Charleston. The other three will compete for the remaining two spots with anyone else who wants to try out for the team...
...driving ambition of most of our students to succeed, a spirit many of them carried from the Charleston Movement, spilled over into the class room. In the 95 degree heat of the South Carolina lowland summer, they voluntarily attended classes six hours a day. They started classes themselves when the teachers were late. They stayed after classes were supposed to end, talking about Raisin in the Sun, set theory, Storm Thurmond, and Malcolm X. Most of them did more homework in those six weeks than they had in the previous year. None droped...
Such interpersonal contact characterized the experience of most of the 150 graduate students in the Southern Teaching Program this summer. About half of them taught programs in Negro and integrated schools and colleges, which, like the Charleston Tutorial Project, concentrated on basic academic skills. The other half taught regular college summer courses in all academic subjects, replacing faculty members who studied or did research. They taught in every Southern state, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. They taught at colleges ranging from a few that were good by almost any standard to a few where most of the students and some professors...
Many instructors entered a situation much more difficult than Charleston. Negro faculty members, who felt threatened by the presence of white Northerners, were often openly hostile or indifferent. Courses lacked promised textbooks and sometimes promised students. In a few cases open hostility erpted between the instructors and the administration. One graduate student was fired from a college in South Carolina when he complained about the steam heat being on in his classroom in July. In the most spectacular incident of the summer, eleven instructors lost their jobs at Bishop College outside of Dallas when they organized a protest march against...
...response to the community programs is especially encouraging. Local Negro leaders in Charleston can point to the accomplishments of last summer as evidence of a need for new educational programs. They have forced the schoolboard to sponsor an expanded version of last summer's program for this coming summer. And the success of the Charleston program has prompted people in eight other South Carolina communities to plan similar projects. In place of five teachers and 45 students, the South Carolina program will have 90 teachers and 900-1000 of the most capable youngsters in the state from limited economic backgrounds...