Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubts? For one thing, Detroit's black leaders point to the public school system, which is 85% black. By the time a Detroit student is in the eleventh grade, he has fallen two years behind the national norms in reading. Lamont Crenshaw, a black clinical psychologist, echoes a point made by urban educators across the country: "There are kids getting out of school who can't read, who can't write, who can't fill out an unemployment form. What are they going...
...didn't quite turn out that way on the streets of Cambridge--though 19 days later at Kent State and 30 days later at Jackson State the prediction would prove apt enough--but the comment reflected the tenor of the times. Police shut down Widener and Lamont Libraries after receiving an anonymous bomb threat. We might not always do this, they say, but in times like these we have to. For the hell of it one day, about 15 kids, aged ten to 13 according to reports, decided to have some fun. They stood on the Weeks Memorial Bridge...
...idea of pre-Christmas exams would probably sound pretty good to most undergraduates in Lamont doing pre-Christmas work in the middle of January. But supporters of the most recent attempt to change the academic calendar stress not only the psychological benefits but also the savings in energy a six-week mid-winter vacation would produce...
University officials have been keeping an eye on the club since an initiate crashed through a plate glass door during last year's nude run through Lamont Library and the Square...
...accepting football players with a blatant disregard for their academic records, or Penn doing the same for its basketball dynasty, or Princeton prostituting itself to admit superb women athletes, or Harvard pressuring professors to show some leniency for athletes who perhaps aren't spending all that much time in Lamont or Widener...