Word: hunters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everyone at Hunter College commutes--attending this school is like having a nine-to-five...
Located in New York City, Hunter suffers from all the problems of a "commuter college." Going to Hunter becomes "just a continuation of high school" for many of its 6,000 undergraduates. Since the college has no dormitories at either its Bronx or Manhattan branches, most students live at home. Because it is difficult to make new acquaintances, they must rely on high school friendships...
...Hunter's difficulties lie deeper than the subway tubes. Faculty and students agree that the college's entire structure needs overhauling. They complain about the heavy general education requirements, for the battery of compulsory courses includes art, music and physical education. By requiring a minor as well as a major field, Hunter makes flexible programming extraordinarily difficult...
Moreover the school's impersonality often interferes with its educational system. For instance, students tend to blame Hunter's inflexible academic standards for their extreme grade consciousness; the college automatically expels any student whose index falls below a set level and allows no one to remain on probation for more than two consecutive terms. Further, admissions are equally impersonal, since they are determined solely by an involved computation which includes high school marks and SAT results...
Huston, of course, is a show in himself, as always. He wears black leather suits, white hunter's outfits and long striped muu muus. He has a tawny Anglo-Iranian girl named Zoë: with him. He has also made the happy discovery of raicilla, a 180-proof distillate of the maguey plant that is far more potent than tequila. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine," says Burton...