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James S. Coleman's recent statement in Boston that forced busing is causing a white flight to the suburbs "should not be taken seriously at this point," Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Psychology and Social Relations, said last week...
...class people who should be able to overcome social obstacles and make a decent living. Says INS Commissioner Leonard Chapman: "The Vietnamese are hardworking, honorable, highly religious, artistic, and they have a great sense of family." Their staying power, moreover, has already been cruelly tested. Notes Harvard Sociologist Tom Pettigrew: "In such a murderous war, most people would not have shown themselves to be tough and so persistent. I think these qualities will show up in the refugees...
...example, only 25% of South Boston High's graduating students went on to college. That compared unfavorably with the record of the all-black Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Roxbury, which sent nearly half its graduates into higher education. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew quotes local folk wisdom: "If you want to go to college, you don't go to South Boston High; and if you go to South Boston High, you don't want to go to college...
...year of racial peace for Pettigrew...
...nation has successfully weathered its severest constitutional crisis without producing oligarchy or chaos. The three-way division of powers, which has provoked more funeral orations than Julius Caesar, still functions. If the recent election showed evidence of apathy, it also provided examples of vigor. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew sees "serious good news" in the massive gains that blacks made in Congress and state legislatures. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to become Governor without benefit of her husband's coattails, is a symbol of the growing numbers of women who seek and win elective office. Optimists...