Word: nyquist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman Betsy Richmond, at number one, dispatched Nancy Nyquist with predictably few problems, 6-3, 6-0. Felske said once Richmond had adjusted to the wind, she had "no problems...
...everyone has given up the effort to stop racial separatism. In Philadelphia, for example, the N.A.A.C.P. threatens to sue the University of Pennsylvania to stop its W.E.B. DuBois Residence Hall from excluding whites. In New York, State Commissioner of Education Ewald Nyquist, who argues that "voluntary segregation is just as bad as required segregation," intends this month to order all colleges and universities in the state to draw up plans to end separatism by 1973. Those who refuse to do so voluntarily, he says, may lose their state and federal funds, or even their accreditation. The obstacles confronting Nyquist...
...rise of local resistance to new integration plans (see EDUCATION) was dramatized by the school board of Buffalo, which refused by a 4-3 vote to comply with an order by New York Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist to present a plan for a better racial balance in its 98 public schools. When New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller endorsed Nixon's busing moratorium and urged state education officials to review their probusing policies, he was stiffly rebuked by the New York Board of Regents, which supervises all public education in the state. "In a multiracial society," a Regents statement said...
...integration of the city's 46,000 students, 33% of whom are black. The scheme, which included the busing of 16,700 students, was backed by more than 60 local civic groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Junior League. It was hailed by New York Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist as "a beacon for the rest of the country." Three days later, amid rising national agitation over integration, the board met publicly and killed the project by a 3-to-2 vote...