Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday afternoon, at its annual convention in Washington, the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted to place Yale University on athletic probation for two years for using a basketball player, Jack Langer, that the NCAA had declared ineligible.
The demonstrators occupied the university offices half-an-hour after the start of a rally called to protest the expulsion of Michael Albert- the president of M.I.T.'s. Undergraduate Association- and the placing of two other students on probation for their roles in demonstrations at M.I.T. last fall.
The blacks are highly sensitive about special treatment, though many of them do need and get unusual consideration. The University of Chicago normally requires an applicant to score at least 650 (out of a possible 800) on his law-school aptitude test; but a few blacks have been admitted with...