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Rebirth Theme. Then the action subsided, the bathers put on modest white gowns and the central event came into focus: the baptism of three new members of the congregation-a Jewish student in his 20s, a young woman dancer and a three-year-old black-and-Puerto Rican boy adopted by a white family. As incense billowed up toward the rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each...
...must also expand to include life-long workers and not just students-turned-workers. It must come to grips with how it will relate to black. Puerto Rican and Chicano movements, a consideration conspicuously absent from the Davenport conference...
...Open Admissions, the figure is 76%. The new policy was set up as a result of pressure from blacks; ironically, two-thirds of the students admitted under its terms were white-the sons and daughters of hardhats and the working poor. Even so, the number of black and Puerto Rican undergraduates enrolled full time in the-? university increased from 14% in 1969 to 23% this year. If nothing else, Open Admissions helped lift morale in the high schools whose failures made the program necessary in the first place. At Benjamin Franklin High in East Harlem two years ago only...
Nonetheless, Vice Chancellor Timothy Healy argues that the increased presence of minorities is healthy: "One of the great gifts the black and Puerto Rican student can bring to the university is another vision of America-a vision that is not necessarily complimentary...
...series' seven-member repertory troupe features Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican-born actress who won an Oscar in West Side Story, and Bill Cosby, who after five seasons gave up Hollywood TV series to pursue a doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts. Cosby is not unfamiliar with academic slow starters-in worse days he had to do a rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated...