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...Francis Faulkner, a spokesperson for CLT, says that the Boston headquarters for the petition has been receiving more than 20 calls a day from parents complaining that teachers have been encouraging their students to vote against the ballot initiative...
...Faulkner went one step farther, claiming that college administrators were "manipulating" students to vote against the question...
...level of activity in the colleges is far more frenzied [now] than it was [in 1980]," said CLT spokesperson Francis J. Faulkner...
According to Faulkner, officials of the University of Massachusetts at Boston held a training session on Question 3 last week at the university's Arlington Street campus. Faulkner also said that a professor at the University of Lowell "cancelled regularly scheduled classes...just to have a bull session...
Limelight suited John Edgar Wideman, a former University of Pennsylvania basketball star and Rhodes scholar who became a novelist once heralded as the "black Faulkner." But in 1976 the light began to darken. Wideman's younger brother Robert was convicted as an accomplice to a murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten years later, the writer's 16- year-old son Jacob stabbed a camping companion to death and, like his uncle, was given a life term...