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...data in a March issue of The Princeton Alumni Weekly--which data I had no reason to doubt -- I reported in my article that of 69 Negro students in the Princeton class of 1973 only 48 blacks remained as seniors. I concluded that this constituted a very high dropout rate. With regard to these data -- the only figures in my article about Princeton -- Dean Neil Rudenstein's letter does not demonstrate anything like "serious inaccuracies." He says that "While these figures do not match the Registrar's precisely, they are very close to the official record." (My Italics). His charge...
...entire Princeton class, which he says is "about 81 per cent." Again, it is curious that he did not give a precise average residency figure; moreover, he did not provide the Princeton residency figure for 1973 which would allow us to determine exactly how much higher the black dropout rate was compared to the Princeton average for that year. Surely he had access to these data. At any rate, Dean Rudenstein's only substantive difference with my reference to black dropout situation at Princeton is that he prefers nitpicking over the term "dropout" while I call a dropout a dropout...
Dean Rudenstein does present dropout figures for Negro students in the Princeton classes 1974-76 which show a much lower dropout rate than 1973. Rather than discounting my comment on the situation for blacks in the class of 1973, these data illustrate the point in my article that the crisis of blacks at elite white colleges is attenuating -- or as I put it in my article, there are cracks in the wall of black separatism on white campuses, beginning in 1971. One result of this at Princeton is a decline in the dropout rate for blacks. But it is interesting...
...ended, apparently, one of the nation's most enterprising experiments in private schooling for the dropouts of the ghetto. Harlem Prep was born in 1967 out of a mixture of inner-city violence, white guilt and black hope. At a time when 65% of New York's black and Puerto Rican students were dropping out before finishing high school, not even the vast promises of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation seemed to be providing enough immediate help. So Eugene Callender, a Harlem minister and local executive director of the Urban League, recruited a white college dropout...
...Nobody hears the word dropout or delinquent around here," he told them, "but this is a workshop, not a picture gallery. If you don't want to work, don't come...