Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the responsibility for sufficient education inevitably falls on the families of the Negro children. After all, it was through education nthat other minorities escaped mass poverty. Parental encouragement and help are of the essence in making children develep their potential. To be sure, one must be careful not to draw unwarranted analogies between the history of other minorities and the present plight of Negroes. But here is one analogy that is inescapable: only massive human investment in education can make economic equality possible
There are many signs that by going into the anti-poverty business, the government has begun to generate thousands of dissatisfied customers who will soon know the ropes as well as the downtown bureaucrats. A welfare case worker described the change: "People are beginning to act as if help from the government is a right instead of a privilege. They know what they are entitled to." Early in August, welfare recipients from New York and other large cities proved the point by holding a convention in Chicago to plan strategy for demanding their rights...
This change should help end the unfortunate isolation of the Medical School. Nothing can be done, of course, to eliminate the physical separation between the Med School and the rest of the University, but students on both sides of the Charles stand to gain from increased contacts...
...effort by the people of Watts to keep their own community peaceful, a self-help project that even the nationalists could not demean, although it came from a coalition group. Lou Gothard, an active member of TALO, thinks this kind of unity is a necessity for community action. Although he has nationalist sympathies, he feels that nationalist have often hampered effective action by taking a hard, doctrinaire line that prevents coalition. "The function of nationalism is to point out the fallacies of the civil rights movement," Gothard said, implying that before equality can be achieved, Negroes must be able...
...fourth year will be devoted to elective courses offered in all divisions, taught by departments and chosen by students according to their interests and needs from a catalog with the help of their faculty advisors. Throughout the preceding three years, at least one-third of the teaching time will also be devoted to elective courses...