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...recent years, however, City College and the 19 other institutions that make up the tuition-free City University of New York (CUNY) have found it increasingly difficult to keep up their standards. Reason: a 1969 ruling that opened the doors of the university to any student holding a high-school diploma from New York City's school system, which graduates many functional illiterates. Result: CUNY was swamped with students who were ill-prepared even by the most generous standards to do college-level work. Last week the New York board of higher education voted 7-2 to require CUNY...
Greenwood began taking football seriously as a high-school freshman in Canton, Miss. Hoping to get a degree in pharmacy at college, Greenwood attended Arkansas A M & N on a football scholarship. By the time he was graduated in 1969, L.C. had abandoned his hopes of owning a drugstore; he reported to the Steelers' training camp as their tenth-round choice. "I couldn't believe it when I made the team," he says...
...current policy of isolating the freshmen in the Yard, or worse yet in the Union dorms, is socially and psychologically detrimental. The entrance into the mainstream of university life is postponed, and the whole process of the conversion of a high-school identity to a collegiate one is delayed. The male-female ratio of approximately 3:1 in the Yard, and the total absence of women in the Union dorms, makes freshman social life, at best, disheartening. Grouping of freshman in the Quad would add a sense of physical detachment to the existing social isolation, and further deter freshman assimilation...
...high-school division of labor also exists at Harvard, but not quite in the same manner. The student committees at Harvard are theoretically designed to give students some say in the decisions that affect their lives--particularly on issues that concern student housing or food services. But despite the fact that these committees do make recommendations on how the University will regulate students' lives, the old high school division of power remains--the students don't have...
...pretty blown away on dark beer and Peg's 140-proof white lightning--only Daniel passed into other orbits. Monday afternoon, when he came back to himself, the boy didn't remember a thing. But that's normal for Daniel, a lightweight 17-year-old, high-school drop...