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Although it tried, West Point did not escape-all the trends of the sixties. It is actively engaged in recruiting blacks, who have not traditionally been represented in large numbers in its ranks. It suffered a severe shortage of applicants, as well as a high dropout rate, during the Vietnam War. In addition, many of the Academy's academics now make a point of demonstrating their open-mindedness, their willingness to criticize government policy...
...reputation in Easy Rider as a boozy small town lawyer hopping across the country in a search of an alternative to urban America. In Five Easy Pieces he played the misfit artist who made an ethic out of lonely and ignored self-destruction. He was an uncritical social dropout, however, suffering from a congenital incompatibility with what happened to be a sick scene. Like it or not, his road trip was still an endorsement of Playboy America. David Staebler lacks even this vivacity or independent moral sense. The bleakly comic face he turns toward emotional catastrophe is tantamount to moral...
...Dropout. Discharged from the hospital after five months, Coats returned home to his family and tried to resume his education by enrolling in general studies at Nassau Community College. Four times he had to go back to the hospital, however, once for five months. He dropped out of college, partly because the commuting was too difficult. "Even at home," he says, "it's like being in the hospital...
With this bold declaration, mailed to various periodicals (including TIME), Victor Taylor, 28, announced his impending graduation, magna cum laude, from Southern Illinois University. He did indeed have a story to tell. A high school dropout from Dallas, he joined the Navy, tried to become a pilot but was disqualified for color blindness. That made him so "disenchanted with Navy life," as he put it, that he robbed a naval-station bank of $125,000 and ended with a ten-year prison term...
...math in their native tongue. There are 42 such centers now, but they reach only about 5,000 of the estimated 100,000 Spanish-speaking children in Illinois. Formerly, the chief goal of Illinois' public schools in educating such youngsters was to teach them English, despite a dropout rate that exceeded 70% in Chicago alone...