Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRAVEL news is an important part of TIME's Modern Living section...
...most dismal case of Three Thirty Three's skimpiness is the Sports section. It includes but two articles-a routine description of the football season and a confusing skiing story. There are two pages of fine crew pictures, two pages of dull wrestling pictures, two pages of out-of-focus winter track pictures. Nothing at all on the nation's best squash team and only a short paragraph on the Olympic crew.Whoever wrote cutlines for the four pages of hockey pictures couldn't spell Ron Mark's name and probably couldn't tell a fore-check from a slap shot...
...money, the only bright spot of the book is the 24-page section the editors turned over to Harvard blacks. The eight articles do not avoid repitition, but unlike the rest of Three Thirty Three, they are written with some verve and contain some information. We learn that two-thirds of Harvard blacks are second-generation college students and that three-quarters went to predominantly white high schools, that former Afro president Jeff Howard thinks "Afro-American Studies is the manifestation of a few political realities just as much at fair Harvard as at San Francisco State,"and that whites...
Unhappily, the Black section is an isolated stroke of political awareness. An execrable essay entitled "A Perspective of the Causes and Concerns of Student Activism at Harvard" begins with the sentence, "A profound questioning of the role of the University in society and a re-evaluation of what it means to be a student within the university have engendered an unprecendented surge of student activity at Harvard." And it gets no better...
...Section 504 provides that if a college determines, after holding a hearing, that a student or teacher already convicted of rioting by a court is guilty of "substantial disruption of the administration of the institution," then Federal aid to the individual must be cut off for two years. The selection requires colleges to report such individuals to the government. So far it has been largely ignored...