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Robert W. Bennett, dean of Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, who signed the deans' letter, said: "Part of what is disappointing about this whole thing is that our intense protest was to no avail. We made an honest attempt to really address the issue on the merits, but there was really a willingness to ignore the truth for politics...
...when the Dow jumped a total 48.12, to 1823.29. Since Wall Street customarily quiets down before a long weekend, many investors had to scramble to take part in the sudden rise. "There's no doubt it caught them absolutely by surprise," said Eugene Lerner, a professor of finance at Northwestern University and president of a Chicago investment-management firm...
Among the seven graduates that TIME profiled in its cover story on the class of '68 18 years ago were Vernon Ford of Northwestern, Liz Stevens of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and David Shapiro of Columbia. To see how they have maintained their sense of social commitment while coping with the pressures of family and career at mid-life, TIME Correspondents Elizabeth Taylor and Cathy Booth sought out the three Baby Boomers. Their report...
Vernon Ford went to Northwestern in 1964 to study and play basketball and became a black-power militant. Today Ford, 39, is living in the west-side Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. A nattily dressed real estate developer, he has a big house and two cars, one of them a BMW. But he has also kept the vow he made in college: to use his education as a lever to help other black people...
Taking an M.A. in sociology from Northwestern in 1970, Ford went west to law school at the University of California, Berkeley, because "I needed more credentials and equipment." After nearly three years of providing legal aid to welfare clients back in Chicago, he quit, frustrated by the low pay and disillusioned with the possibilities for creating change through the federal courts. He decided to go into real estate instead...