Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities of Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota, for example, will all begin black-studies programs for the first time this fall. The University of Iowa will have a new "action-studies program," whereby students can suggest curriculum changes. Northwestern University is including students in a new community council, with faculty and administrators to advise the president on all matters of university policy, and is also turning questions of discipline over to a student board empowered to conduct hearings and appeals on everything short of "major disasters." Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor...
Political Trouble. The Administration's stand will unquestionably be popular with businessmen, but it guarantees political trouble. Several members of the Senate Finance Committee pounced on Kennedy's proposals. "You've taken $1.7 billion from the average forgotten American and given it to the corporations," complained Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke. Though some of the Administration's proposals-notably its defense of investment incentives-may make good economic sense, many of them are likely to be doomed by their lack of popular appeal...
Individual boosts in out-of-state fees run as high as 50%, particularly at the Big Ten universities in the Midwest, where the influx of students from other areas is especially heavy. Purdue University, for example, is raising nonresident tuition from $1,200 to $1,600, the University of Indiana from $1,050 to $1,490, and the University of Wisconsin from $1,150 to $1,726, a tentative figure that could go still higher...
Rough Innings. Mrs. Gera's fascination with baseball goes back three decades. At the age of eight, in her tiny home town of Indiana, Pa., she discovered that she could outhit the boys on the block. "Since that time baseball has been my main interest," she says. When she was twelve she moved to Queens and later became a secretary. But she devoted long evening hours to teaching neighborhood kids the fundamentals of baseball and was soon putting on hitting exhibitions for charity with such big-league stars as Roger Maris and Sid Gordon...
...miles across the U.S. in a one-man campaign "to get Americans off their duffs," as he puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American dream...