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...from the union. Their task is Herculean--to clear the grapes out of every supermarket, fruit stand, and corner food store in New England. But Munoz is remarkably sanguine about his chances. He claims that the number of grapes coming into Boston has already been cut by about 40 percent, and that all of the major chain stores inside route 128 have been cleared. The fruit stands and smaller stores have proved much harder to crack. And some chain stores, like DeMoulas's tend to backslide after the picketers have left. But most of the larger supermarkets, Munoz reports, fall...
...local private universities and the public institutions in neighboring states have entrance requirements that are too stiff or costs that are too high for most D.C. students--over 90 percent of whom are black and most of whom are poor. And, added to the number who don't go on to college is the large group of people (about 25 percent of each class) that drop out before high school graduation...
...Over 90 percent of the students at FCC this year are freshmen, and, for the first term, at least, the faculty is offering them 11 so-called core courses. There are also a small number of business classes, and various advanced courses of a more specialized nature for the transfer students. The core courses are inter-disciplinary, within the three areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences...
...response to the center -- both during the summer and in the first weeks of the term--has been amazing. The director, John Coffey, has said that 71 percent of the incoming class had indicated that they would like to use the center. As Coffey put it, his hope is to "make students find themselves as students at the skills center before they go to the classroom." He said that he and other faculty members "feared that the D.C. school system had not produced students who could utilize a college education...
John Cogdell, the financial aid director, said in an interview that many students who needed financial help, however, were not seeking it out. On their original applications only about one percent of the students had requested aid, as opposed to 10 to 15 percent in most state schools...