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Small & Intensive. Unlike state-run universities, where 100 or more students may crowd into a classroom, the church schools believe in a close student-professor relationship. At Mexico City's Ibero-American University, there is one teacher for every five students; among Brazil's Catholic universities, the ratio is one to six. Says one Catholic-university professor who turned down a high-paying offer from a state school: "I would rather teach 60 students intensively, knowing each individually, than deal with 1,000 students, among whom, at the end of the year, I might get to know only...
Unless some academic genius invents a substitute for grades, this generation is seemingly chained to a double life: utter classroom sobriety, relieved by afterhours explosion. Princeton, where rioters went berserk last spring, has its Saturday night "cult of the grubby"-dungareed dancers twisting in once elegant clubs. Bizarre idiocy is also prevalent. L.S.U. coeds recently launched a "drawers raid" on a men's dormitory, and two Cornell fraternity teams played a 30-hour touch football game (score: 664-538). Columbia students staged an 'all-cause" protest rally with marchers Brandishing such signs as HOOVER...
Further problems would arise, Toepfer said, since classroom facilities would never be available for remodeling...
Such obstacles, in part, led 1,018 teachers last year to give up New York's classroom battle-many quitting for the suburbs. Those who remain are willing but not always able. The greenest college graduate can get a substitute teaching job; a third of all New York teachers are substitutes, too many of them thrown into the difficult schools that veterans are allowed to avoid. Yet to get a regular teaching license in New York City requires not only a state certificate but also a special city exam given by the powerful board of examiners, a fusty fief...
That Hunter's faculty emphasizes teaching rather than research creates further difficulties. Many older professors become stale because they spend so much time in the classroom. And the younger professors show little respect for their senior colleagues because they seldom see tangible evidence of continuing scholarship. As one younger teacher explained, "I'm a little afraid of staying around here too long. Almost everyone I know has lost his freshness and enthusiasm." Another faculty member, college, agreed: "Ninety-five per who has since moved to a different cent of my colleagues have been teaching the same course for about...