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...ragged edge of nowhere," Theologian Joseph Conwell of Washington State's Gonzaga University suggests that educated Catholic laymen could take over much of the Jesuits' role as educators. Arrupe has shown a willingness to let a few "good things" die, notably two of the nation's five Jesuit theological schools???one of them the famed Woodstock College (TIME, Jan. 22). Still, it is a difficult idea for some of the world's best educators to accept...
...history and even Bible study?though for many the latter is more cultural than religious. On U.S. campuses, an impressive number of Judaic courses have been added to the curriculums, often at the students' instigation. At least 55 secular colleges and universities?more than half of them top-ranking schools???now offer courses in Jewish studies, compared with only eleven a generation ago. Where formal Jewish studies fail to meet the demand, "free Jewish universities" have sprung up for adults as well as collegians...
Though National Guardsmen have not been needed to quell their disorders, in the past three years U.S. high schools have become far more frequently troubled than college campuses ever were. Almost two-thirds of the nation's high schools???expensive new suburban complexes as well as the blackboard jungles of inner cities?have suffered disruptions. The incidents range from peaceful sit-ins protesting censorship of the student paper to savage riots between blacks and whites. Last week a fresh report from one of the worst battlefields, New York City, suggested that schools have themselves partly to blame...
Susan, 18, the family activist, has just graduated from one of Davis' high schools???much to his relief, she thinks. "I had constant run-ins with teachers and principals about student rights, and he got calls from them. One day I didn't salute the flag in school and someone complained. He got a lot of backlash, and I'm really grateful for his tolerance...
Some integration can be achieved by redrawing school district lines. It can also be aided by pairing formerly all-white and all-black schools so that each contains half the usual grades and also half the enrollment of both of the previous schools???provided pairing does not force whites to flee the area. New York City envisioned a "linear" school concept, in which schools would be strung out over a new expressway and the highway would provide rapid transportation between mixed neighborhoods. The idea was abandoned when expressway plans fell through...