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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools closed for the children's "safety." Fully 53,000 of New York's 57,000 teachers stayed away from classes. Ironically, the only schools operating normally were those of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, where Rhody McCoy, the district's cool Negro administrator, had recruited an eager group of new young teachers. Most were white...
Jeering Crowd. Told by McCoy to assemble in the auditorium of Ocean Hill-Brownsville's Intermediate School 55, the teachers faced a group of angry parents and Negro militants who repeatedly disrupted the meeting with screams and howls. Auditorium lights were flicked on and off, and spectators taunted the teachers. "They hooted at us, cursed us, called us fagots and honkies," reported one teacher. "They said we'd be going out in pine boxes...
Young has kept his office doors open to potential student malcontents. Last fall, for example, he overheard a group of black students criticizing the university, promptly invited them in for a four-hour rehashing of what they felt was wrong. Partly as a result of the discussion, Young pushed through a student-organized course in Afro-American history. This fall the university is also admitting 100 promising but technically unqualified ghetto youths into a special program that will prepare them for normal academic study...
According to the National Association for Pastoral Renewal, an organization of renewal-minded priests and laymen, 463 clerics have resigned from the active priesthood so far this year, compared with 400 in all 1967. That figure may be conservative. A group called Bearings for Re-Establishment, which operates offices in three cities to counsel disaffected clergymen and to help them find new jobs, claims that 1,000 applications for assistance have been processed so far this year...
...write is right. But is it? Last week an expert task force told the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare that too many doctors know far too little about drugs. While few of the doctors "seem inclined to voice any question of their competency in this field," the study group concluded, "lack of knowledge and sophistication in the proper use of drugs is perhaps the greatest deficiency of the average physician today...