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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES E. CHEEK, 36, SHAW UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, N.C. (1,078 students). A militant from way back, Cheek was expelled from one high school for "agitation." As an undergraduate at Shaw, he was nearly fired for leading a student strike against "an indifferent, broken-down faculty" and "Victorian social standards." Thus Cheek is an appropriate president for the campus where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee got its start in 1960. Says Cheek: "I'm not telling my students to be sweet little nigger boys and girls so they can get a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The New Black Presidents | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...When Cheek took over in 1963, the Baptist university was virtually bankrupt. He mounted an emergency fund-raising campaign that eventually allowed him to double faculty salaries. Full professors now earn up to $14,000, which is in line with faculty salaries at most private white colleges. Following his conviction that Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The New Black Presidents | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...truth each man is a free being if only he wants to be. To have said "turn the other cheek" is only to have said that you will let no man's action towards you determine your action towards him. You need only to refuse to let his action determine your response. You need only to refuse to respond to his blow with an attack of your own. You need only to refuse to answer ultimatum with ultimatum. At one point in Paine Hall Dean Glimp acted as a free man. He said, "The fourth alternative is to remove...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Politics of Ultimatum | 12/16/1968 | See Source »

...well-known director and HUAC witness Edward Dmytryk had the sense to play his rusty vehicle somewhat tongue-in-cheek, the heaped-on cliche might have been more entertaining, particularly given the skill of the cast. But this adaptation of an ancient: novel by Louis L'Amour tends to take itself seriously; consequently all sorts of pedantic accusations can be levelled at it: there are no dramatic climaxes, the dialogue is bad, the color stinks, the film is barely entertaining--little things like that...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Shalako | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

...overall the joke is strained. In the story, Brackley carves up his girl's face, but she becomes a model. Grotesque? Yes ("Camillia emerged from the bathroom wearing a slip and having a long, thin nose, a deep cleft serving as an eyebrow, one eye resting where her cheek bone formerly was ..."). Funny? Not really...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Lampoon | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

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