Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times." Since some 75 young Americans burned their draft cards in Central Park during the antiwar weekend, the FBI set about tracking down the culprits. Many of them, it turned out, still had their cards; they had been burning licit scraps of notepaper. One readily identifiable card burner was Northwestern University Political Science Researcher Gary Rader, 23, a reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before...
...School, who got letters of inquiry, many including application forms, from nearly 300 colleges. Modest and softspoken, George ranks fourth out of the 407 students in his class, is class president and a varsity wrestler. He considered bids from Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown and U.C.L.A.; he applied to Chicago, Northwestern, Loyola and Princeton. Accepted by all but Princeton, he chose Chicago because he plans to become a doctor and has a high opinion of its medical school. His two scholar ships, a National Merit Scholarship and an Illinois State Scholarship, will pay him a total of $2,500 a year...
...entirely uncritical of the fact that colleges now covet them, Cecilia McDaniel, an A student in Winston-Salem, N.C., sees her sudden popularity as a form of "reverse racism-an effort of schools to purge themselves of a longtime discrimination against Negroes." She was offered scholarships by Northwestern, Chicago and N.Y.U., probably will choose N.Y.U. because she is interested in drama, figures N.Y.U.'s Broadway-influenced drama department is "more practical" than Northwestern's. Judy Johnson, a bright, outspoken Richmond, Calif., girl, has been accepted by Stanford. She is deeply concerned with civil rights activities and has highly...
...suspects, many law-enforcement officers complain that they are hamstrung. Said one disgruntled Corpus Christi, Texas, cop: "It's getting so bad that lawyers practically have to ride around in patrol cars." That's precisely what Frank Carrington and a number of other young lawyers, trained at Northwestern's Law School under a $300,000, five-year Ford Foundation grant, have been doing. "The resolution of conflicts between maximum police efficiency and maximum individual liberty," says the program's codirector, Professor James Thompson, "calls for the application of sound legal counsel not only in the courts...
...Northwestern-trained legal advisers are now with police in Pittsburgh, Corpus Christi and Chicago. At first, says Legal Intern Wayland Pilcher, who is with the Corpus Christi force, the cops were suspicious of him. But they came around once it dawned on them that his job was to make their own "work more effective within the guidelines...