Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest such effort in U.S. history. Tests showed some of the new matriculants reading and doing math at barely ninth-grade level. Vice President Agnew has termed the scheme "new socialism." In a speech last April, he predicted that by admitting students "who do not meet the standards and requirements of higher education," New York "will have traded away one of the intellectual assets of the Western world for a four-year community college and 100,000 devalued diplomas." Some angry parents see open admissions as a giveaway of an opportunity that their children had to earn by academic merit...
...Chancellor Timothy S. Healy. "Our critics say we're changing the rules of the game, and we are. We believe in giving second chances. The day is over when this society can afford to tell a kid that simply because he's had trouble with English and math, he can never get beyond high school...
...become rather sophisticated with explosives in the past few months, but on this occasion their timer was off. At 3:42 a.m., less than two minutes after police in Madison, Wis., received the telephone warning, a blast tore through the University of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall, destroying the math center and parts of the school's physics and astronomy departments. In the wreckage were the center's computer, valued at about $500,000, the lifework of five physics professors and the doctoral research of 24 Ph.D. candidates. And because the warning came too late, Physicist Robert...
After the Wisconsin bombing last week, Governor Warren Knowles angrily pronounced it "an insane act." Whether or not the bombing was clinically pathological, it did have a twisted political rationale. Officials at the math center maintain that they work only on "pure research" projects, nonclassified problems that may be of interest to industry as well as to the military. Although the Army this year allocated $1,200,000 for the center, the university says that most of its staff members are civilians...
Every Wednesday and Thursday night, John L. Smith goes to a janitor's closet in the Kansas City, Mo., Federal Office Building and rolls out a battered metal dolly. It holds a filing cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...