Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wider Division? Chicago was not the end of the road for the militants. Scott Lash, 22, a psychology dropout from the University of Michigan and a McCarthy worker, observed that the Chicago scene left most of the marchers more frustrated and embittered. Scuffing his hiking boots and twiddling his granny glasses, Lash lamented at week's end: "There's going to be a wider division in the country than ever. There's going to be more violence, both by whites and blacks, and I'm willing to be part of it. I wouldn't have...
...says he will quit after this year. Out-of-state faculty recruiting has been curtailed, and as the remaining outsiders move on, they are not likely to be replaced. Morse himself has not yet been sacked, but there are rumors that he may be. Laments Yaleman Michael Trister, a dropout: "The great experiment at the law school is almost dead...
Organized two years ago by New York City's Urban League, the program operates on the premise that the dropout hustling a living on the streets has a native savvy that can be channeled into the classroom. In the past year, eleven major U.S. corporations, including Time Inc., have anted up $30,000 to $50,000 as sponsors. The money pays for the leasing and remodeling of a ramshackle storefront, teachers' salaries, books, and the expenses of street workers, who roam the ghetto, "rapping" (talking) with dropouts and actively recruiting them for the academies. In turn, the corporation...
...street workers, often storefront graduates themselves, make the initial contact with a promising dropout. Upon entering the academy, a youngster takes a bedrock curriculum of reading, English grammar and arithmetic. Once attending regularly, he moves on to a storefront Academy of Transition, where the spectrum of courses is broader and the teachers-often college graduates disillusioned with the public schools-attempt to stimulate his interest in further learning...
...must be destroyed," and White's answering, "Yes, but what do you really mean?" Kill Whitey? Or (smiling whitely) merely destruction of the social order? And what then? Black points out with sour pleasure that his "revolution" has 22 million members and that there are few recruiting or dropout problems. White says yes, but so long as blackness and separatism are requirements, the membership can do no more than cause disruption, because it can never grow large enough to complete a revolution ... It is a weird sort of coffee-housing, especially if Black and White happen to be friends...