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...outgrowth of the Urban Reporting Project launched by the New School for Social Research, and partially supported by a $375,000 Ford Foundation grant, CNS since April has been helping big dailies, radio and TV stations keep in closer touch with the city's black and Puerto Rican communities...
...campus is two floors of an old federal office building in downtown Manhattan. Most of the 142 students are poor black or Puerto Rican women with children. All are over 21, and some are in their 50s. Only half finished high school; half are on welfare when they matriculate. Few U.S. colleges would accept or could afford such students. Yet the tuition-free College for Human Services pays them $2.10 an hour to swallow a massive dose of social sciences and earn a two-year Associate in Arts degree that is recognized anywhere in the country. The result may well...
Most of the tenants are black or Puerto Rican. About three weeks ago, the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican radical group, the Panthers, and a lot of people in the community organized Operation Move-In. They took over the empty buildings, and moved homeless or crowded families into them. The project takes care of the buildings with volunteer labor, fixing the pipes, and assigning apartments to the families so that each one has enough room...
...them, and it can't evict the families, because every time they try, thousands of people surround the buildings to protect the new residents. The project has established a representative community council to make decisions, and cultural education programs for the kids, including classes in black and Puerto Rican history and a cultural resource center...
...students and will have to make plans for immediate implementation of programs such as a Sensitizing Week. Otherwise, the school may face a continuation of Afro's Spring strike in September. Next year, there will be 135 black students instead of 90. along with about 25 Mexican and Puerto Rican students instead of 7. The number of women may also jump from the 60 this year. All these minority groups will demand a more sympathetic administration. The Business School is obviously far from reaching its peak in student discontent because the socialty sensitive students have just begun to fight...