Word: chatham
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...integrate its older students into campus life, Chatham College, a small liberal arts school for women in Pittsburgh, renovated a separate dorm for adults. Berry Hall is convenient, affordable ($350 a month for a mother and child, including utilities); day care is provided nearby. The University of California at Santa Cruz, where 1,500 of the 9,000 students are beyond the keg-party stage, provides subsidized family housing...
...which could push many of them over the financial brink. Last week's heat wave, which reached 105 degrees F in parts of the Carolinas, further scorched crops and killed more than 500,000 chickens. "This could put us completely out of business," laments Dairy Farmer Charlie Bouldin, of Chatham County, N.C., who expects less than 30% of his hay and corn crops to survive...
This month in Savannah, which ranks fourth among U.S. cities in homicide rates, a 31-member, N.A.A.C.P.-sponsored citizens task force on black-vs.- black violence was created. Curtis Cooper, president of the Savannah N.A.A.C.P., noted that blacks are usually both perpetrator and victim in Chatham County. The task force, he says, was designed "to wake people up about the seriousness of this problem." Eugene H. Gadsden, a black superior court judge and a member of the task force, asserted that community involvement was essential. "We're the ones being affected most," said Gadsden, "and we ought to be able...
Flashiness would only intimidate the clients of the Chatham County Social Services Building in Pittsboro, N.C. This structure was designed by Architect Norma DeCamp Burns of Burnstudio, Raleigh, N.C., to look like a house and convey a homey atmosphere for the staff as well as citizens who come for assistance with Medicare, food stamps and other public welfare programs...
...level, the complaints--often raised to state-of-the-art whining as in Graves' characterization of "one crisis after another being a president without authority"--reflect the implicit ambivalence of the presidents themselves. Alberta Arthurs, former president of Chatham college, correctly observes. "We tend to teach our best students to admire individualism rather than the institution. I don't think that's a bad thing, but that makes thing tough for college presidents...