Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the bargain-rate, $200-a-month Lansing office, filing cabinets bulged with letters from well-wishers, and a few recently acquired tomes on Viet Nam occupied an unpainted bookcase. Situated in a tumble-down neighborhood four blocks from the Michigan state capitol, Governor George Romney's new head quarters - formally dubbed the "research center" - clearly had nothing to do with state business. The working hypothesis, of course, was that the Republican presidential nomination was within Rom ney's reach. However logical that as- sumption might seem, it was being undermined with empirical assiduity almost half a continent...
...rights were being compromised by the city's fair-housing ordinance. The court thought otherwise, holding that a broker's license can be legitimately suspended if he is found either to have indulged in "panic peddling" (influencing whites to sell because a Negro has moved into the neighborhood) or to have failed to show a property for rent or sale to a potential customer because of his race, beliefs or nationality. In New York, a court held that discriminatory practices in violation of the open-housing laws can constitute "untrustworthiness" and thereby provide grounds for the revocation...
...some of the Ivy League universities. Nor is it as way out as Berkeley. Being Midwestern, it is probably in the middle, and is trying hard to establish its own identity. Three factors will probably determine the outcome of this identity crisis -- the university's educational reputation, its Chicago neighborhood, and financial needs...
...Harper gave the university an enviable reputation as an outstanding center of graduate instruction and research. The Hutchins' era provoked a mild educational revolution which aroused excitement and suspicion. The University of Chicago is now trying to maintain both of these traditions at a time when, pressured by neighborhood problems and capital needs, the demand for educational greatness is mounting...
Students must expect something different at the University of Chicago, and many are initially disappointed with the unstructured student life and the sense of informality which pervades the campus. But they can quickly find their cause in the surroundings. The university is an integral part of the Hyde Park neighborhood. The students get caught up in the problems of the community, and soon feel that it is "home." More important, the students become involved in the dialogue over their own education which has been going on since the Hutchins...