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Though J.W. Heisman of Heisman Trophy fame once served as the school's football coach (1892-94), Ohio's Oberlin College has always been better known for its string quartets than its quarterbacks. While the Oberlin Conservatory of Music was winning international acclaim, the athletic teams were losing so regularly that an independent study two years ago concluded that the sports program at the small (enrollment: 2,700) liberal arts college should either be scrapped or drastically overhauled. Oberlin's 36-year-old President Robert Fuller opted for the drastic -he appointed Jack Scott (TIME...
...first college administrators treated voluntary self-segregation by black students as a necessary but temporary phase. They said that poor youngsters from ghettos needed to gain self-confidence before entering the mainstream of college life. That change has happened on some campuses-Harvard and Oberlin, specifically, report very little separatism-but on most campuses checked by TIME correspondents the segregation of the races appears to have become a permanent way of life. Says Senior Joe Conner, 21, chairman of the Black Student Union at the University of Southern California: "We just have no contact. They're there...
...usual, Harvard is pointing the way for other universities. Oberlin and several other major institutions are already studying the Harvard Plan for possible implementation. Hard-pressed colleges and harried parents throughout the country may own Harvard a debt of graditude. But it seems likely that by the time the Class of '76 graduates some four years hence, they will own Harvard a good deal more...
...usual, Harvard is pointing the way for other universities. Oberlin and several other major institutions are already studying the Harvard Plan for possible implementation. Hard-pressed colleges and harried parents throughout the country may owe Harvard a debt of graditude. But it seems likely that by the time the Class of '76 graduates some four years hence, they will owe Harvard a good deal more...
...OBERLIN COLLEGE...