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...championship quarterbacks. Its circle is limited, and members tend to be intolerant, even contemptuous, of nonmembers, no matter what their claims to greatness. Bobby Layne, the roistering old Lion, quarterbacked teams that won championships in the N.F.L. He belongs. So do Bart Starr, who won five, Johnny Unitas, Norm Van Brocklin and Joe Namath. Francis Asbury Tarkenton, 36, is not a member. Though he has won three conference championship games, Tarkenton...
...Harvard Educational Review, three correspondents speak to this phenomenon: "Each label," they wrote, "implicitly or explicitly points to an alleged deficiency, weakness, or absence of a quality in the Black American. The deficit model clearly embraces a doctrine in which white middle class culture is the acceptable norm." (November...
...yardstick by which minority inferiority is measured is no longer the distinct rule of law, but the far more labile and equivocal "norm of white middle class culture." The barriers erected in front of the progress of minority groups do not change in fact; only in kind. For the minority students, saddled with more descriptions, labels, assumptions and expectations than a miner's packhorse with pickaxes, the white college or graduate school can be an almost impermeable maze of trials, tasks, hurdles and psychological leaps. If the challenges to these students were only academic, as they are to the "norm...
Most courses meet for one-and-a-half to two hours each week, and the workloads are generally half of the norm for the college. Thus, to obtain a degree, the school's students must take double the College's requirement of full courses. Even numbers of people are enrolled for credit and non-credit courses. The course catalogue, with 156 offerings, closely resembles that for the rest of the University, except for a stronger emphasis on language and basic science courses. Seminars are available in conjunction with the Radcliffe Institute, and writing labs are also offered. The six largest...
...swing an election." Pollster Hart, in a major study of nonvoters published last month, was alarmed to find that young voters are not moving into the political process. "They're like a lost generation that doesn't want to participate," says Hart. "Nonvoting is becoming the norm...