Word: colorados
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Independent study, in which students work out their educational goals with an adviser, then pursue them individually, is proliferating. Most spectacular are Ford Foundation-financed experiments at Allegheny, Colorado and Lake Forest colleges, in which some 25 students on each campus are spending their four years in such study. They are examined on their understanding of liberal arts at the end of their sophomore year, on their major field as seniors...
...Radcliffee students descend the Canyon walls to spend three months in Supai. Usually the students have never been farther west than Pittsburgh. The West, they think, must be no more complex than jostling down a narrow trail on a donkey piled with gear, or pulling catfish out of the Colorado River above the rapids...
...Colorado, things didn't go by the script. For one thing, the anonymous writer had made an incredible number of errors. Professor Howard Higman, he wrote, was now carrying on the teach-ins. But, replied Professor Higman, he had been asked to speak at both teach-ins and had refused; in fact, he favored Johnson's Vietnam policy. One of the four professors charged with "friendship" with the two ex-Communists had never met them; another was acquainted with them professionally. Only one considered himself a "close friend" of the two men, both respected, tenured faculty members. Professor Richard Wilson...
...charge still might have stuck had two officials not stood up for the accused teachers and the paper. Colorado's governor John Love said he deplored the teach-ins, but wondered whether "the possibility of a witch hunt" wasn't a greater danger. CU's President, Joseph Smiley, fired off a letter to Dodd demanding proof or a retraction...
...version of the Dodd Report, printed this month, includes this statement, on the page that once contained the atack on Colorado: "Material originally appearing in this space, having been found erroneous in several respects, has been deleted. All remaining material in this volume has been checked and found accurate; and none of it has been a subject of complaint...