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...Manhattan begun to offer jazz during regular semesters. Juilliard and Curtis still do not. Until very recently, a student could be evicted from conservatory practice rooms just for playing jazz. And that is as nothing compared to the astonishing neglect accorded jazz in black colleges. Major black schools like Fisk, Tuskegee and Wilberforce still do not condone it. Perhaps, suggests Saxophonist John Handy, an instructor at San Francisco State, that is because many black fundamentalist churches have stigmatized jazz as evil and sinful...
...about 40 Federal employees carrying antiwar signs and waving their pink Federal identification cards marched to the front of the police lines and sought to enter the building. City Attorney John Fisk told them they could not enter unless they surrendered their placards and went...
After the sweep, a group of demonstration organizers, including Arthur Fink, teaching fellow in General Education, negotiated an early end to the demonstration with Fisk, who granted a permit for a brief rally on the Common...
...member governing body endorsed the recommendations of a special committee-headed by Bell Telephone president Dr. James B. Fisk-which has been in operation since September...
...scrapped its schools of aeronautical science and dentistry, letting 40 faculty members go in the process; at Harvard, programs have shrunk in the schools of design, divinity and education. Berkeley is doing without research institutes in social sciences and earthquakes; Tulane has dropped six graduate programs. Predominantly black Fisk is phasing out its Afro-American Institute. For every cutback mentioned in the report, says Cheit, there are many more at other institutions. Numerous schools are reducing urban-service programs, library books and scholarships for poor or minority-group students...