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Invitation to Revolt. For black G.I.s coming home can be hell. San Francisco's Carl Witherspoon, 21, was a track star and scholastic achiever before he joined the Marines. In Viet Nam he collected a Bronze Star and two bullets in the gut. After nine months in hospitals, Witherspoon mustered out and began looking for a job and a home for himself and his pretty wife Paulette. Frequently rebuffed and insulted, Witherspoon finally landed work with the telephone company and an apartment in a good neighborhood. Though he and his wife are rarely at home in the evenings (they...
Berkeley students insist that the best clue to the existence of a gut is a disproportionate enrollment of "jocks" (athletes), "Freddys" (fraternity men), "Sallys" (sorority sisters) and "mungs" (beatniks). Stanford's jocks are urged by Athletic Director Charles Taylor to take Health Education 400, in which Professor Oliver E. Byrd grades solely on the number of abstracts of articles in medical journals his students turn in -and he tells them how many abstracts will make an A. He has abolished examinations, gives one test that includes multiple-choice items asking, for example, to "name the required textbook in this...
...confines himself to the top two grades, on Princeton's one-to-seven scale. He contends that his courses in Roman law and Roman history are "incredibly dull -I never cease to be amazed at the way the students learn the material, and I grade accordingly." Princeton "gut-hoppers," who try to take only easy courses, are also fond of what they call "Trucks and Buses," a course in transportation centering on one research project. Two students recently lugged a case of beer out to Route 1 every afternoon for a week; one man counted the trucks coming from...
When a new gut appears, the word travels fast. Meteorology 100 at the University of Wisconsin drew 400 students one semester, 800 the next. The Rev. Thomas J. Brennan's freshman philosophy course at Notre Dame is so popular, and easy, that enrollment is limited-and athletes and foreign students seem to be preferred. Their most difficult task is putting up with Father Brennan's idiosyncrasy of flipping matchbooks at them during class. Catching them is not easy; he has developed a curve and a slider...
...with arctic coolness; in fact, he had not met with both Fowler and the President since August. Mills has been insisting that a tax increase has to be matched by a decrease in expenditures. The Administration resisted, fearing that a cut of the magnitude demanded by Mills would gut federal welfare programs. One list of economies that was proposed would have eliminated vaccinations for children, and another would have slashed the school lunch and milk programs-proposals the Administration well knew would be unacceptable to Congress. "They haven't wanted to cut," complained a Ways and Means member. "They...