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...advanced science writing and international reporting, there is an impressive roster of new programs, many of them supported by the Ford Foundation. Southern newsmen are now being awarded Mark Ethridge scholarships for study at any of six Southern universities. Stanford University is starting a program for some 40 journalists. Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism this fall will offer 40 reporters programs in urban studies. The Russell Sage Foundation has made two grants for study of the social sciences at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia. The American Political Science Association plans to pay the cost of sending...
Forty students recently quit a Northwestern University criminology class because the professor belabored obscure theories hour after hour. "To take something as inherently interesting as criminology and make it dull is a crime?he really had to work at it," recalls Senior Andrew Malcolm. At U.C.L.A., Senior Sharon Jones protests that "if I want to complain about a test, first I have to see the reader, then the teaching assistant; then...
...Confessions, Northwestern Law Professor Fred E. Inbau and Polygrapher John E. Reid depict the modern interrogator as "a hunter stalking his game." They prescribe absolute privacy in a small, bare, windowless room. "Display an air of confidence in the subject's guilt," they urge. Appear to have "all the time in the world." The interrogator strips the suspect's status away by using his first name-"Joe" rather than "Mister"-and slowly moves his chair "closer, so that, ultimately, one of the subject's knees is just in between the interrogator's two knees." Says...
Weaver's wife Ella is an auburn-haired, fair-skinned North Carolinian who has a University of Michigan master's degree and a Northwestern University Ph.D. in speech. She did her undergraduate work at the Carnegie Tech drama department from 1929 to 1932 despite an unwritten policy that no Negroes were allowed. Everyone thought she was white-including the all-white Southern Club of Pittsburgh, which awarded her at the end of her sophomore year a scholarship for being the top Dixie-bred student...
...Ph.D.? Even while they break the tradition of block teaching, more schools are finding other ways to help able and hard-working students to get through faster. Each year, Northwestern University accepts 25 to 30 of the nation's brightest high school graduates and puts them into a grueling six-year program that combines undergraduate science and the humanities with a graduate M.D. course. Boston University has a similar system; Johns Hopkins puts students, after two years of college, into a five-year M.D. course...