Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other considerations also pressed the Ed School toward urban involvement. "There was a growing sense," says Thomas, "that we simply cannot evade our local responsibility." Increasing numbers of faculty and students also found the city's turmoil fascinating. The ghetto brought the deficiencies to light, forcing the school systems to spill the long-guarded achievement tests. But as the list of problems lengthened, Cambridge academics found, in Thomas's words, "a growing resonance with city problems--a fascination with the ungainly monster...
...local laundromat still bears a "whites-only" sign, and Marks, a hot dry Delta town, does no better getting along with its colored people than its neighbors...
Later that day Mrs. Collins took me around to talk to another neighbor, Mrs. Lillie Mae Common. She had recently quit a cooking job at one of the local eateries, a small room attached to the Pure Oil gas station just this side of the railway tracks that divides the town. The eatery is run by a tall woman, hair dyed an unnatural deep black, whose hips liked to brush against the hairy fingers of a customer. Sister of the gas-station's owner-manager, she was married and yet not married; some mystery surrounded her status...
Cooks met here with several student supporters of the campaign, including leaders of the Association of African and Afro-American Students. One local organizer for the campaign, Steven J. Kelman '70, said yesterday that supporters would set up tables in the Houses and at Radcliffe Wednesday urging students to participate...
Hyman wants a tripartite commission of students, faculty, and local residents to handle Columbia relations with the community; a tripartite commission of students, faculty, and workers to over-see the university's labor policy; and a bipartite commission of students and faculty to take care of academic matters...