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...sometimes even ostracizing fellow students who tried to integrate with whites. With great earnestness, they shunned such traditional campus hijinks as Yale's Whiffenpoofs, Princeton's Triangle Show and Stanford's Gaieties in favor of black self-help or cultural projects. Black students at Columbia tutor schoolchildren in Harlem, for example, while those at Northwestern have formed a black choir, folk theater and dance troupe. At Cornell this fall, they opened Ujamaa, an all-black residential center devoted to the study of Tanzania President Julius Nyerere's philosophy of "familyhood...
...part of a government education program for fans, game tickets are now printed with standard admonitions: "Don't cause your team to be punished. Do everything you can to calm people around you." Israeli TV and radio will soon carry programs on sportsmanship, and schoolchildren will be instructed to cheer rather than boo an outstanding play by an opposing team. Acknowledging that the education may not be 100% effective, the Football Association also plans to erect security fences between the fields and the stands. For all the preventive measures, however, many soccer officials feel that it will take more...
Forty players travel with the team, which has an average age of 25. Many have played since they were schoolchildren, and play now mostly...
...American flag before the grandstand* and matched strength with the men of a number of other countries by holding the flag staff at arm's length during much of the march. After the West Germans, as host team, closed the parade, 3,200 Munich schoolchildren sang Sumer Is Icumen In, a far cry from the 1936 Horst Wessel Lied. The traditional doves were released, the Olympic flame was lit by a torch relayed from Olympia in Greece by 5,976 runners, and West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated proceedings with the regulatory 14-word statement: "I declare open...
...admit fault, but it did agree to a settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court, under which 2,500 improperly placed students will receive a token payment of $1 each. Moreover, the district promised to eliminate "racial, cultural, environmental or linguistic bias" from all future IQ tests administered to schoolchildren in San Diego...