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...Catton takes leave of the Civil War to recall his own boyhood in Benzonia, then and now a tiny town on Michigan's northwestern frontier. It is a land where life is still "easy and pleasant, with fish to be caught and clear lakes for swimming." Yet as Catton looks out his window, he can see the threatening white domes of early-warning radar installations...
...either academically or psychologically, for college. Wellesley's Allen says she was patronized when she first arrived: "The attitude was, 'You are underprivileged, you are behind and need help, you are not as good as us.' " In short, says Paul Black, director of minority affairs at Northwestern, "the white-student milieu was just too different for assimilation to take place...
...integrate with whites. With great earnestness, they shunned such traditional campus hijinks as Yale's Whiffenpoofs, Princeton's Triangle Show and Stanford's Gaieties in favor of black self-help or cultural projects. Black students at Columbia tutor schoolchildren in Harlem, for example, while those at Northwestern have formed a black choir, folk theater and dance troupe. At Cornell this fall, they opened Ujamaa, an all-black residential center devoted to the study of Tanzania President Julius Nyerere's philosophy of "familyhood...
Missouri was clobbered by Nebraska 62-0. Nebraska lost to U.C.L.A. 20-17. U.C.L.A. was defeated by Michigan 26-9. Michigan barely squeaked by Northwestern 7-0. And Northwestern was manhandled by Notre Dame 37-0. That, by all the rules of logic, means that Missouri should have lost to Notre Dame by a lopsided score of something like a zillion to zip. Right...
...course, calling for greater social justice, a plea that is often met by the firm cry of "permissiveness." Berkeley Criminologist Jerry Skolnick observes, "It is like a symbolic battle-between those who want to appear tough and those who want to appear soft." What works is what matters. Northwestern's Inbau, for instance, favors stiffened sentences and reduction of technical legal defenses, but also points out that some potentially effective "soft" approaches have not been tried-notably, enforced gun-control laws and elimination of police responsibility for some "victimless" crimes like gambling and vice. Inbau credits the Administration with...