Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried Math 11. I really wanted to be a mathematician, but the instructor...I just couldn't understand what was going on, he was too disorganized and I couldn't do the work on my own sort of. I couldn't provide any order from his disorganized lectures. I dropped out of that...
...course came alive through visits to Catholic Masses, Seventh-Day Adventist services, even a Satanic Church in San Francisco. They can study anything they choose on their own, and no one cares whether they attend class. "I just go down there and holler at nine in the morning," says Math Teacher Ray Ditman, "and if nobody shows up, I go back home...
Other students indicate that they are applying to specific areas of graduate study which will probably be draft-exempt. Some 132 students are applying to graduate schools in either math, medicine, engineering, science, or dental school -- all of these areas are almost certain to be exempted because they fall under the official definition of studies in the national interest. Twenty-five students are applying to graduate school in education or psychology -- areas which have not yet been declared exempt, but stand a fairly good chance of being recognized as valid for deferments. Finally, most of the 267 individuals...
...rule, computer work done by math, statistics and physics students is of the sort the SDS can accommodate: small in input, even when the solution process is complex. The Humanities and Social Sciences, and in some cases the Natural Sciences, often require work with a much larger input, sometimes too large for the time-sharing system...
Leahy said that at most universities which receive government grants and contracts, some of the money is usually in the form of salary subsidies. Leahy explained that when a professor here files effort reports on his salary, as some math professors are required to do, his salary has not been paid, even in part, by the government. His salary payments are merely the University's share of the "cost-sharing" requirements...