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COVER: Teenage pregnancy is rending the country's social fabric 78 Each year more than a million American teenagers become pregnant, four out of five of them unmarried. Among blacks the trends are especially alarming. The problem goes to the heart of the U.S. poverty cycle and raises touchy questions for parents, educators, policymakers and society at large. See BEHAVIOR...
They are of different races, from different places, but their tales and laments have a haunting sameness. Each year more than a million American teenagers will become pregnant, four out of five of them unmarried. Together they represent a distressing flaw in the social fabric of America. Like Angela, Michelle and Stephanie, many become pregnant in their early or mid-teens, some 30,000 of them under age 15. If present trends continue, researchers estimate, fully 40% of today's 14-year-old girls will be pregnant at least once before the age of 20. Says Sally...
Cornell’s Slope Day, when students celebrate the end of classes with a day of drinking and revelry, and Dartmouth’s Green Key weekend, a similarly debaucherous few days, are each one piece of a social fabric composed of large, open fraternity parties every night of every weekend...
Apart from this move, the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO)—and the structure of the Harvard freshman year—has remained largely the same since its conception in 1930, even as the University and the fabric of the student body have changed...
...others made fruit juice atop a wooden press that my friend had constructed beneath the oak trees; the Yard where one night this year a dance party paraded, fueled by hundreds of portable radios; or the Yard through which a ragtag bunch marched with a bizarre, colorful, 10-foot fabric cube in the first snowfall of the year—for no good reason, but for every great reason...