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...TIME stories as Little Known-& Good, a look at 50 good small colleges; Campus Conservatives, the new political trend in the colleges; Go Everywhere, Young Man, the first broad description of the Peace Corps and its possibilities; Programed Learning, about the new teaching machines; and How Much Is a Nun Paid?, last week's analysis of how parochial schools finance themselves. This week's major effort, called The Education of the South, chronicles the interesting shift in Southern thinking since the Supreme Court ordered desegregation in the public schools...
...nation's first Catholic President refuses, and thus far both sides have argued the constitutional principles involved. The unexamined side of the debate is the actual financial state of Catholic parochial schools. Do they really need federal aid? Where do their funds come from? How much does a nun make...
...typical parish, the priest has the duty and obligation of providing schooling. He raises the operating expenses chiefly from the Sunday collection plate, getting contributions that would make almost any Protestant minister envious; he charges little or no tuition. Going heavily for him are two assets: he can get nun teachers at a board, room and stipend cost of only $650-$1,250 a year, and he can often tap diocesan funds for loans for building...
...problem of parochial school management is finding nun teachers-"the only form of slave labor still permitted in this country," quips Spokane, Wash.'s Diocesan Superintendent Father Norman Triesch. Already 40,000 lay teachers form 40% of the Catholic teaching force, and in five years they will probably be in a majority. Their pay runs to three or four times what a nun teacher costs, yet is enough lower than public school pay to make them hard to recruit. These rising costs put an extra strain on the collection plate-and spur on such typically Catholic fund-raising gimmicks...
After the brutalities had gone on for weeks, U.N. Malayan troops finally got moving. They shepherded 35 missionaries into a hotel in the town of Kindu, got 20 out to Leopoldville. No one died, though a nun whose breasts were badly burned with lighted cigarettes wakes up at night screaming at the memory. The U.S. last week protested the "outrages" and demanded that the culprits be brought to justice. But 250 missionaries were still trapped in Kivu...