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...education" is the traditional U.S. answer to poverty and inequality. As a result, thousands of Negro youngsters are trying to enter public colleges across the country. But if they fail to qualify, often because they went to poor high schools, how can the colleges admit them without diluting their own academic standards? More deeply, how can the colleges give blacks a break without suffering a white backlash...
...were painfully dramatized at City College of New York, a longtime symbol of salvation for bright, needy students. In recent years, rising applications have forced tuition-free C.C.N.Y. to raise its admission standards ever higher. Meantime, poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans (now a majority in New York's public schools) have filled the slum high schools that once helped to feed the college. Lacking the stimulus of middle-class whites, who have moved elsewhere, the feeder schools have deteriorated. Despite huge enrollments, some of them now graduate as few as 15 college-qualified students a year. As a result...
Into the System. The obvious solution is a vast upgrading of the city's public schools, but New York is too broke for that. As an alternative, New York's 15-unit City University (C.C.N.Y.'s parent) has an ambitious plan to enlarge community colleges and guarantee a crack at higher education for all comers by 1975. To that end, C.C.N.Y. has already admitted 732 less qualified students, who get special tutoring and then enter the regular undergraduate program if and when they qualify. Unfortunately, lack of money threatens both the long-range plan and the tutoring...
Henry A. Kissinger, LL.D., special assistant to President Nixon. A brilliant, articulate and remarkably productive scholar, and a distinguished public servant devoted to world peace and security...
...NASA, Larry Poland, 29, president of Miami Bible College Inc., complained that the Apollo 10 astronauts had carried "the language of the street" to the moon and called on the crew to repent their "profanity, vulgarity and blasphemy." Each astronaut, said the minister, should be required to issue a public statement of apology...