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...professors at Northwestern University is now requiring us to hand in our notes taken for the term paper. We're also required to maintain a critical bibliography on all "sources" used. RICHARD A. JANIS Evanston...
...momentum of change built in Evanston until it nearly split the town in two last year. Evanston has a black population of 16%: some are fourth-generation Evanstonians, descendants of blacks who moved there as domestic servants a century ago. The blacks were at the center of a battle over school integration, allied with liberal whites behind School Superintendent Gregory Coffin's implementation of a plan to distribute blacks equally among the city's 16 elementary schools (TIME, March 9, 1970). Coffin became anathema to conservatives and was forced out after integration was completed. Evanston's grammar...
...reason that black-white relations in Evanston are relatively calm is that the black community has a strong middle-class orientation. Its members like to boast: "In Evanston, the black ghetto is black owned." But there is a growing black consciousness. "Blacks can't find a better place to live" than Evanston, says Mrs. Jessie Smith, a welfare mother. But she adds: "We don't want to be pushed down any more." Whites complain of black-white student friction in Evanston Township High School, and there is a tinge of race in rising local taxes. Says Alderman Nott...
...have suburban problems here. We have big-city problems." They do: race, rising crime rates (burglaries up from 594 in 1969 to 842 last year), low-income housing, downtown business stagnation, taxes, traffic, student unrest at Northwestern (which has a 21-year-old black woman as student body president). Evanston's acting city manager, Edward Martin, 27, finds the scene far from dismal. "We have all the problems of a major city," he says, "but on a manageable level. I feel we're a great laboratory in that sense." One thing that helps enormously is the high level...
There is, clearly, a certain ambivalence in Evanston. Evanstonians consider themselves city dwellers: then again, they feel like suburbanites. Evanston is a city with the virtues of a suburb, or a suburb with the virtues of a city. Either way, it seems to be working...