Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richardson continues, he never goes to a school just to recruit minority students. "That's not our purpose. We haven't got time for that," he says...
...girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against teachers seem to be increasing faster than student v. student assaults. In one incident last November, a woman math teacher in a New Haven junior high accosted a 14-year-old girl in the cafeteria line after the student insulted a cafeteria worker. The girl wheeled round, flung her tray of hot soup and mashed potatoes into the teacher's face and began to punch...
Outright violence is paced by a spreading atmosphere of hostility and disrespect within the classroom. "It's the insults, the dirty words, the cold insolence of the students that really bother teachers," says Stanley Heller, president of the West Haven (Conn.) Federation of Teachers. The decay in decorum can be traced back to the mid-'60s, when the civil rights movement and Viet Nam protest sparked a general distrust of authority. "The unspoken sense of distance between teacher and student began to disappear, and students felt they had a license to behave any way they wanted," says Geraldine...
...other words, losing one great defenseman does not usually result in a respectable team getting their zambonis kicked by a squad they haven't lost to in over a decade...
...Crimson in the last two games, over a fourth of what the team gave up all last year. And believe it or not, it was the first time in this band-aid kind of season that Harvard has lost two games in a row. (Of course, we haven't let the 11-3 humiliation to Boston College slip our minds yet, have we?). But most of all, it was just a damn shame...