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After several days of intensive instruction (including homework), the campers choose their own computer project. Last week, for example, Peter Elliman, 12, was trying to design a program to analyze taxes for his mother, a Houston real estate agent. Halley Hupp, 13, of Newport Beach, Calif, said, "I want to make a C.S.I. [Computer System Instruction] program for teaching kids like us how to use some graphics and key words." Counselors give the youthful programmers high marks. Says Instructor Mitch Williams, 22, a computer-science graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara: "I'm glad the kids...
...Hupp's most controversial moves has been to relax Boys Town's almost monastic regime. He has ended the censorship of mail, tolerated longer hair, and even endorsed dating. "My first impression upon coming to Boys Town was that this place was a minimum-security prison," said Mike Casey...
...Hupp's disciplinary reforms have worked...
...critics are also aghast at Hupp's reduction of Boys Town's population from 700 to the present more manageable 510, a move that has forced its athletic teams to compete in a small-school class. The school's chorus director warned that disgruntled donors would sue if more Boys Town money is spent on anything but "caring for homeless and neglected boys...
...Counters Hupp in defense: "Today there is almost no kid available who's a true orphan. The boys at Boys Town either ran away from home or got kicked out. They have more deep-seated problems than needing only a place to sleep and something to eat. This is why we're going to make some big changes...