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...Failure to respond to the "alarmingly high dropout rate" approaching 25 per cent...
...unavoidably is not, enough time to give everyone an equal opportunity to prove himself. There are no cuts in Harvard football, and freshmen find that with their late reporting date and an opening game not more than three weeks away, people get overlooked. The only cuts are of the dropout variety, and there are indeed a lot of them. There is a helluva lot to do in Cambridge, and a lot of candidates (as many as 50 per cent some years) decide to take advantage of the city rather than play ball...
...Census Bureau said, blacks made significant progress in education, income, job opportunities and housing. The greatest improvements occurred in the North and West among black families where the parents were under the age of 35, especially when both husband and wife were working. The high school dropout rate for blacks decreased sharply to 11.1% in 1971 , compared with 7.4% for whites. On the college level, the number of black students enrolled rose from 10% to 18%, compared with a constant 22% for whites...
...Half of RCA's nontenured faculty lack college degrees, but nearly all have job experience. Such a practical approach attracts students like Angelo Miranda, 24, who briefly considered going to college, then decided, "What I'm really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most brutal school in the world...
...hair is long, his politics hip, and he is a purposeful dropout from the University of Michigan. But Guerin Scripps Wilkinson, 19, also happens to be a great-great-grandson of Detroit News Founder James E. Scripps and owned $60,000 worth of News stock. In an obvious move to embarrass the paper, Guerin announced plans to turn over his shares to an amalgam of underground outfits for sale to blacks, poor whites, Indians and Chicanos so that underprivileged citizens could be represented at News stockholder meetings. Envisioning vociferous claques disrupting the normally decorous deliberations, the News quietly offered Guerin...