Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presently asking its basketball players to compete on equal footing with other athletes who are not students first, but basketball players first. This is totally unfair to the Harvard basketball player who must choose between devoting his energy towards winning on the basketball court, or winning in the classroom. If he chooses the classroom (which he must, for Harvard gives no Lab-Credit for the hundreds of hours a player spends in the IAB) a player must sacrifice a game he has devoted his entire life to perfecting; a game that may bring him fame and fortune unparalleled...
...outstanding basketball players with the lie that Harvard can compete nationally. These athletes should be told of Harvard's "low-profile," and allowed to decide as to academics or sports, so that if they choose Harvard their disappointments/joys will be centered with those of the other students ... around the classroom...
...Radcliffe woman who has second thoughts about the academic life, Lisa's career suggests a way out--a way out of the classroom and onto the streets were at least admission to a union meeting is sex-blind...
Donald Fantinni, one of the three committeemen who unsuccessfully moved to reconsider the budget, said that "corridor and cafeteria aids have as much educational effect as any teacher in a classroom...
...obviously not all-of the nation's city schools. Declares Los Angeles' Principal Sid Thompson: "For teachers and students alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...