Word: preps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fall, an estimated 300 graduates of the Academies of Transition will go on to a third and final level, at either New Jersey's privately endowed Newark Prep or the Urban League's Harlem Prep. Founded last October and already accredited, Harlem Prep has its own school song, navy blue blazers and an unmistakable esprit, de corps. Both schools have thus far sent 96 former dropouts to college...
...remember what they used to say about us in the National Press? We were their hope and their fear. First, the generation of activists: the ones who had overcome the "apathy of the sleeping '50's." But then at the prep schools some clever Life magazine correspondent had dubbed us the Negos," the super-sophisticate boys, the kids who were negative, sarcastic, caustic, alienated, and bitter about everything that touched them. We were the ones who thought it was uncool to show emotion, to become involved, to be loved or engage...
...remember what they used to say about us in National Press? We were their hope and their fear. First, the generation of activists: the one who had overcome the "apathy of the sleeping '50's." But then at the prep schools some clever Life magazine correspondent had dubbed us the "Negos," the super-sophisticate boys, the kids who were negative, sarcastic, caustic, alienated, and bitter about everything that touched them. We were the ones who thought it was uncool to show emotion, to become involved, to be love are engage...
Exeter Afro held a black mixer with black girls from prep schools in the area. The band was a soul group from Exeter called the Precisions. The Precisions are rumored on campus to be unpopular with the administration because there aren't any whites in the group...
...blacks don't smoke marijuana or take other drugs at Exeter. The commonly-held reason is that coming to prep school was a more unusual alternative than taking drugs. More importantly, they aren't within the social group that takes drugs...