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...mind. He has a reservoir of sympathy as a result of the still-unsolved murder of his daughter Valerie last September. In the Senate, Percy got off to a whirlwind start, persuading 27 colleagues to co-sponsor a bill calling for a Government-supported private corporation to help slum residents buy their own dwellings...
...before. Brenda Conner, a biology student, spends most of her day working on a pet project-a study of the distribution of histones (basic proteins) in chromosomes. One group of students organized a classic-films discussion group. Others spend the day tutoring children in Vine City, an Atlanta Negro slum...
Place in the Sun. A graduate of the State University College at Cortland, N.Y., Becker was assigned to Schuyler in 1934 as a physical education teacher, eventually became principal in 1962. His working theory is that a slum school must be parent and guardian as well as teacher to its students, a combination that demands tough but unmistakable discipline. His goal, he says, "is to try to give them academics and help them find a place in the sun as valuable members of society who can earn a good living. If we can't do both, we will...
Thanks largely to Becker, Schuyler unquestionably does that. About 20% of its graduates go on to college-a high percentage for a slum neighborhood school. Beyond that, Schuyler has proved to be an educational magnet for what Principal Becker calls "drop-ins." One recent graduate was a married and divorced mother of two who returned to finish high school after a 13-year lapse. Still another was a 17-year-old Negro boy who had quit a New York City high school and entered Schuyler four years later after he had been sent to Albany by his parents to live...
...them IUDs. On form, he could have expected 50 pregnancies within a year and a half. Actually there was only one-and that because a girl deliberately skipped her pills. In Baltimore, a preventive pill-and-IUD program is being carried out among pubertal-age girls in "high-risk" (slum) areas...