Word: dropout
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...Queens high school honor student, three weeks away from graduation, who dropped off his date after a prom and then, while walking home, was shot to death on a quiet street. A week later, one of his three young assailants - Angel Claudio, a 16-year-old tenth-grade dropout - found a lawyer in the Yellow Pages and surrendered to police, admitting that he had accidentally shot the victim with a .38-cal. pistol when the student resisted an attempt to take his ring. Within a few days, one of the accomplices retained the same lawyer and added his own confession...
...becomes, for a while, an overage hippie, buying off-beat costumes at the Salvation Army and riding on the back of a motorcycle with his son. Tremont's sister and daughter, who both live near by, bask in this sunny remission; his son Billy, a college dropout, shows up and is equally delighted. After a lifetime spent working at factory jobs he hated, Dad is finally enjoying himself. The only one unhappy about all this is Mom, who fears that her husband of 50 years has become a stranger. She throws an extended tantrum. Before too long...
Blackburn is self-consciously democratic. There are no fraternities or sororities, and the work program is run by an elected committee of 13 students. Though attempts are made to share rough chores fairly and to match students to tasks they prefer, the pressure grows too great for some: the dropout rate among first-year students at Blackburn is a moderately high 33%, some of it due to dislike of work, academic and otherwise. In addition to attending classes and meeting their quota of chores, students are expected to spend 30 hours weekly in course preparation outside the classroom. Sixty percent...
This message is, to say the least, a strong discouragement to upward striving. The urban or rural youngster, the immigrant, the dropout already look at the library, the research library, with awe. Unless encouraged to use these facilities, these tools of upward mobility, they willnever even approach them, and simply regard libraries, research, higher education, as part of the "other world" and those who are a part of this other world as enemies. The final discouragement would be to say "you're not going to want to use this anyway. So what if we charge a fee to those...
President!" as he moves about Washington - a practice his agents would dearly like to stop. Yet the ease with which an attack can take place was dramatically demonstrated to Reagan be fore last week's shooting. As then Candidate Reagan campaigned in Miami in November 1975, a college dropout named Michael Lance Carvin, 20, managed to break through the crowd and point a toy gun directly...