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...addicts are delighted by the available space. There is room to eat, sleep and make love; there is room to store electric guitars, amplifiers and loudspeakers and camping gear as well. "The essence of living in a van," says Alan Feinstein, a Ph.D. dropout who drives one around northern California, "is that it gives you the freedom to have a lifestyle of not being tied down. I can go where my head wants...
...Jobs. Van Peebles was born 38 years ago on Chicago's South Side. He is no ghetto dropout, but a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University. A photographer friend turned him on to film making, and Van Peebles made several shorts, which he tried to parlay into a film job in Hollywood. He was offered two: elevator operator and parking-lot attendant. Meanwhile, Henri Langlois of the prestigious French Cinemathèque, the largest depository of film and film history in the world, saw some of his pictures and invited him to Paris. Langlois showed the films...
...many college presidents are like Charles G. Hurst Jr.-yet. He is a high school dropout who was a husband and father at 15. He has been a boxer, ditch digger, janitor, foundry hand and crane operator, and has served four months and 14 days in a North Carolina jail for being caught with bootleg liquor. Now 43, he delivers evangelistic speeches to his student body, garbed in dashikis, while from a gold chain around his neck hangs a carved African-style tiki in the form of a clenched fist...
...amazing results. Reports TIME Correspondent Jacob E. Simms: "There is a certain hardness to the student body. The usual buzzing and chatter are absent. An almost solemn silence permeates the hallways. Intense arguments go on in the student lounge. Even basketball seems to be played with unusual seriousness." The dropout rate has plummeted; this year less than 10% of Hurst's students failed to complete each semester. Members of last year's graduating class were accepted at colleges from the University of Illinois to Howard to Berkeley; all 115 graduates of the various nursing programs have jobs. Meanwhile...
While the median black family income rose by 50%, from $4,001 in 1960 to $6,191 in 1969, for example, the median white income increased from $7,252 to $9,794. More blacks than ever finished college during the '60s, but the high school dropout rate for black males in 1970 was 15.9% v. 6.7% for whites. A white with an eighth-grade education earned more in 1969 ($7,018) than a black with a high school diploma ($6,192). Unemployment for nonwhites in 1970 was 8.2% compared with 4.5% for whites, although for the first time since...