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...Livingston College has made a commendable effort to recruit black and Puerto Rican students and faculty to the new campus [April 20], but it has certainly done nothing to end discrimination against women in the academic community. The first-year catalogue of the college lists women as only 7½% of its faculty, thus making the liberal new school one of the most conservative coeducational institutions in the country in terms of equal employment opportunities for women...
Nationally, women represent about 40% of the faculty of junior colleges, 20% of the faculty of four-year colleges, 10% of the faculty of large, prestigious universities and, alas, only 1% or 2% of the tenure ranks. Thus, Livingston College in its first year of operation has an even poorer record than the large, prestigious universities...
...blacks view Livingston? They have already demanded and won an all-black dormitory. Just a bit startled, the faculty likes to view a stay in the dorm as a temporary phase for most black students. Says Donald Phifer, a black admissions officer: "When they discover that they are holding their own with whites in class, they will want out of that black dorm." So far, the dorm remains black, and it is overflowing into part of an adjoining building...
...Livingston isn't anything but a test tube," says a black Viet Nam veteran. "We have great potential in the urban studies program," he insists. "But when we begin to take those new ideas out into the cities and try to put them into action," he worries that Rutgers-"Big Father across the river"-will block student projects that become too radical. Says another black skeptic: "If Livingston takes the revolutionaries off the streets, who's going to be left out there running the business?" But he adds: "You got to have college to survive...
...knows whether Livingston can satisfy black and white students with sharply different backgrounds and expectations. The experiment may collapse-or furnish a prototype for colleges across the country. As of now, Livingston's main claim to fame is that it has not temporized in what it set out to do. That alone makes it worth watching...