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...Freshman year is bewildering, but the main issue is fairly simple--survival. Sophomore issues are much more complex and urgent. For instance, you have to choose a field of concentration which seems to close many career opportunities," Epps said...
Although it is the first task of General Education to give a student tools to structure his thought in the four basic divisions, there are two main reasons which justify requiring a student to take an upper level course in lieu of a lower level offering. First, although a well-prepared student may already have covered some of the content of a lower level course which would thus bore him, he has probably not been exposed to the selective Gen Ed approach of relating disciplines within that field of knowledge. This experience would be stimulating in an upper level...
...which to base his foreign policy. His policy is one of sidestepping-of drift, deceit and defeat. He cannot face the glare of discussion because he cannot face the glaring questions of his fellow citizens. He talks of peace, but he has no stomach to face up to the main threat to peace -Communism...
...deepest drive so far into Dixie, Humphrey showed up for a morning speech in the small (pop. 16,000) south Georgia cotton town of Moultrie. As he stood up to speak to a small audience assembled in Moultrie's main square, he was greeted by a chorus of boos. "Communist!" came the cry, and "Go back where you belong!" Finally, Humphrey turned to Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, who had introduced him and was now sitting near by. "Governor," said Humphrey, "you'd better do something about this." Sanders, who has his own political problems, sat silent...
Richard Nixon returned to the Republican warpath last week, starting a 36-state, 150-speech campaign effort on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Before he left New York, Nixon confided that his main aim would be to fight off "the very real problem of Republican defection," and he had high hopes of success. Said he: "Johnson's support is very broad but very thin. Goldwater's support is narrower but deeper." But he recognized that Barry's political image needs polishing. "Goldwater must be depicted as a reasonable, calm man, and not as someone who has a bunch...