Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gary W. Greer, a second-year student at the Medical School, said last week "there was never any organized form of underground student resistance" at the school until last month...
This week that resistance came out into the open. Greer and two other students informed Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, that 75 per cent of the third-year class had effectively agreed not to return to the school this fall unless the faculty rescinds a three-year-old ruling requiring students to concentrate in one of 12 areas...
...Ebert suggested a compromise this week when Greer and two others told about him about the third-year students' agreement. The student leaders also gave Ebert a statement explaining why they felt concentrations should be left optional...
...concentration areas has now been completed," enabling all students to complete study plans that will meet some areas' concentration requirements. Ebert's letter says, "Only students who have submitted an approved concentration program will be permitted to matriculate in September, 1977." As Ebert mailed out that statement, Gary Greer, a second-year medical student and chairman of the school's closest approximation to student government, was preparing to reveal that he had collected statements from three-fourths of the third-year class saying that they will not file concentration plans...
...sports that pushes an athlete or coach to "give it one more try?" It can't just be the money, especially for superstars living in a world of endorsements and acting careers. It's got to be something more, so much more that we cannot empathize with a Hal Greer or a Bob Gibson hobbling and wheezing their former glories into anti-climax...