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...schooner is used for college credit courses in nautical and marine science offered by the non profit Sea Education Association, Inc., of Woods Hole, Mass., a one-semester minicollege for liberal arts majors and others interested in learning about the oceans. As SEA's executive director, Corwith Cramer Jr., puts it, "America used to be a maritime nation. Today there are few places where you can learn about the sea. We're trying to reduce what I call maritime illiteracy...
...tends to attract students who are tinged with wanderlust. Says Greg Montgomery, 20, a University of Virginia junior: "At school I have a 3.5 average, and I take academics very seriously, but I was getting stale." "Most kids this age are dying for a way to prove themselves," says Cramer. "The Peace Corps appealed to that. How many other ways are there today for a 20-year-old to exercise real responsibility and show that he's good...
...Philadelphia Inquirer won its fifth straight Pulitzer for the international reporting of Richard Ben Cramer from the Middle East...
Much the same thing happened to James Cramer, a sociologist at the Georgetown University Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure. Cramer was hired for a one-year teaching job at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 and promised that he would be considered for a permanent job. But the university, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner...
...preferential treatment in the Cramer, Weber and Bakke cases was not imposed by a court, but was "voluntary" (in Weber, however, the quotas were voluntary only in a special sense, since they resulted, as is frequently the case, from a need to satisfy federal rules). The Supreme Court has upheld court-imposed quotas in cases where past discrimination has been proved. But the Bakke case may help to clarify the legality of giving preference on the basis of race or sex in the absence of a court order and where there has been no judicial, administrative or legislative finding...