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...Iran, Le Monde reports, prisons are being built faster than new school buildings. And inside those prisons, the SAVAK practices torture on students, teachers and others who disagree vocally with the Shah's repressive policies. As Nat Hentoff reported in the Village Voice last month, the SAVAK uses fairly standard methods of torture: "power batons used with special zeal in the genital area...the pulling of teeth by decidedly non-licensed practitioners...and the 'Hot Table,'" something pioneered by the Iranians which gradually toasts and ultimately burns the strapped-in prisoner. Iranian exiles report that SAVAK, estimated...
Some of the Nat Sci 36 alumni said they were genuinely interested in the material and attended all the lectures and section meetings, but most said they were looking for an easy course when they enrolled and were not disappointed...
Students attribute poor attendance at lectures and section meetings to Nat Sci 36's single requirement of a research paper at the end of the term...
Personal interest in biological determinism was not enough to sustain active participation in Nat Sci 36, students said. Joanne Kenen '79 said her section thought bi-weekly papers could help the attendance problem...
...want the person who has been a politician." Hence, faculty members-most of whom are part-time and untenured -tend to be well-known personalities in the metropolitan area. New York City Consumer Affairs Expert Elinor Guggenheimer teaches a course on the consumer and the marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other New York personalities who have taught at the New School: Senator Jacob Javits, Broadway Producer Joseph Papp, former Mayor John Lindsay...