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Whether or not they have Third World centers, many other schools have extensive facilities for minority groups on campus. Oberlin College, for instance, has a co-ed Third World dormitory for 50 students. Across the river, Boston University boasts the Martin Luther King Center, which has an office of minority affairs. Stanford has a center for three of four Third World organizations on campus. The Black Community Services Center started at Stanford as a community affairs office in 1969. It now covers 26 student organizations and about 500 students. Stanford's Chicano cultural center also includes about 500 students...
...first arrive in Paris, they seem as gauche as those prototypical U.S. tourists in Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. Joel (Miles Chapin), a preppie who has come to Europe to dress up his college transcript, stretches his rudimentary French vocabulary into epic malapropisms. Alex (David Marshall Grant), an Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim obsession by setting out to visit every listing in the Michelin Guide...
...sessions around New England, especially in Massachusetts. The response has been overwhelming, almost too much for the fledgling alliance to handle. Affinity groups have sprung up at Boston University, UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Tufts, Brandeis, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Boston State, Worcester State, and Harvard, with contingents coming in from Oberlin, Kent State, and Cincinnati. Boston high school students are also getting involved. Harvard, which was rather poorly represented at the 1977 civil disobedience action, will send five or six affinity groups to the occupation...
...presidents of Brandeis University, Bowdoin College, Morgan State College, Oberlin College, Colby College, Smith College and Hampshire College attended the meeting, as well as representatives of the African-American Institute...
...After Oberlin, Shinagel came to Harvard to get a Ph.D, supporting himself through a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and the G.I. Bill. His thesis was about Daniel Defoe; his adviser was two-time Pulitzer Prize winner William Jackson Bate, who Shinagel says helped dispell his feeling that Harvard was a cold place...