Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction of one of his classmates, a New York businessman, is typical: "He was a quiet, self-contained, almost monastic type of student-always got his A. I would not have picked him as the man most likely to succeed-I would have picked him as head of the math department of some small Midwestern college...
...winners of the Shaw are: Charles H. Curl of Leverett and Virginia Beach. Va. (Government): Francis P. Glosser, of Kirkland and Bucyrus, Ohio (English): Woody N. Peterson, of Leverett and Canton, Ohio (English): and Spence Porter of Winthrop and Bronx, N. Y. (Applied Math...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has responded with "Apprenticeship Outreach." A program that the union federation runs in cooperation with the Labor Department and several civil rights groups, Outreach offers special pre-apprenticeship training to ghetto youngsters. They are tutored for six to twelve weeks, mainly in math and reading comprehension, in preparation for apprenticeship exams. The program has been less than a great success, partly because blacks find it difficult to believe that after decades of discrimination they are now welcome in the blue collar areas. Since it began in 1967, Outreach has placed only 5,633 blacks, 56% of them...
...matter how much you care about students," added a former freshman advisor, "to help, you have to know the difference between Math 1a and Math 21." Limiting advisors to only academic counseling eliminates part of the problems, but even then, it is clear that they cannot help everyone. The key assumption in the Radcliffe system, according to Mrs. Elliott, is that will be "pluralism in counseling." Cliffics are obviously not using the official channels to find the information they need, and, in fact, some see the role of the advisor as an agent for directing the student to the places...
When Alan refuses to be put off, Michael can do nothing except hope that his straight friend will have come and gone before the rest of the "boys" arrive. But some of the party guests beat Alan to the scene: Hank, an Ivy-League looking math teacher and his lover, fashion photographer Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, swishy interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler given to Harold for the night as a present) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor and grass has locked all those present into a violent orgy...