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Another, financed by HEW and released after Nixon spoke, found that substantial integration-even in large cities like Cleveland-can be accomplished by redrawing school-attendance zones; little additional busing would be necessary. That study, by the Lambda Corp., a technical research firm in Arlington, Va., assumed that no school-bus trip should take more than 35 minutes after the last child is picked up. The Lambda report also assumed that existing school-district lines would be retained, except in cities where a white majority in the city schools could be achieved only by exchanging students with nearby suburbs.* Even...
Entering Cornell University in 1947, Irving plunged into books, freshman crew and Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, of which he was elected president in his senior year. Initially he wanted to be an artist. Then he read Ernest Hemingway, whose style in life and prose had a profound effect upon him. "Erom that point on," says a classmate, "he wanted to be a writer." He took creative-writing courses at Cornell, stayed on for a year after graduation on a creative-writing fellowship...
Blackmun kept a low profile as an undergraduate. The houses were not in existence, so he lived in a dormitory, where he kept to himself. His only undergraduate organizations were Phi Beta Kappa, and a fraternity called Lambda Chi Alpha, which folded in 1932 and took its records with it. He held four different scholarships, and won a Doctor in 1929. He worked his way through Harvard, running the motorboat for the crew and tutoring, and had very little time left over for activities. As one of his classmates put it: "He wasn't interested in athletics-he couldn...
...admission of women to Lambda Nu comes at a time when several Stanford dormitories are also converting to coed living. In allowing Lambda Nu to become the campus' first coed fraternity, Stanford stipulated that the women must be selected by random draw among those who sign up rather than by any selective "rush." After the first year, Lambda Nu has promised to select its men by draw as well...
Abandoning the rush would make Lambda Nu little different from a dormitory, but its members seem not to mind. Lambda Nu President Fred Fudacz, 20, sees coed living as an escape from the "separation of the sexes that perpetuates artificial male-female relationships." One likely result of daily contact is that students will be less inclined to idealize the opposite sex. After living with the men for a while, Lambda Nu's future coeds may start thinking of them as brothers...