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...less privileged in our own or in other societies. A student may feel that the multiversity has become too big and impersonal and may not always be prepared to study a subject in the sequences and hierarchies organized by the sub-departments, and may find that helping a slum Negro youngster learn English or sitting with an abandoned patient in a mental hospital provides a feeling of personal relation and responsibility lacking in the curriculum. The Peace Corps or civil rights activity may provide similar compensation. Of course this is only a small minority of students, just as only...
...their "mission" in civil rights and slum development, Riesman indicated. The students may be showing the university how to re-establish meaningful ties with their communities. "It is ironical that when some universities have become planetary in the sense of sending anthropologists and development experts to "Pakistan or Tanganyika," Riesman said, "their students may be discovering underprivileged people right next door...
...back window. Tactfully he offers to get the fellow a better job; tactfully the ragman refuses. Why? Perhaps, Hani suggests, it is difficult to have a house full of things and a heart full of joy. Perhaps, in building a terrestrial paradise, modern man is actually building a spiritual slum...
...synthesis of economics, geography, social anthropology and politics, third-graders study Cleveland as a shipping and commercial center, a melting pot of immigrants and native pioneers, and a city plagued by the problem of slum neighborhoods and urban renewal. Throughout, the aim is to encourage valid judgments and discourage rote recitations. "The youngster should be aware that he's in a society that has values, and that a careful choice of values is what determines a rational man," says English...
...author, University of Chicago Sociologist Philip M. Hauser, visited the city's Bogan district to explain the project, he was greeted by 200 white pickets, who hooted and cursed him from the audience. In riot-rocked Philadelphia, the school board plans to bus Negroes from overcrowded slum schools to white schools that are half-empty as a result of a big Roman Catholic school-building program. Whites are preparing a suit to block the proposed bussing on the ground that the $220,000 annual cost would be a waste of taxpayers' money and Negroes threaten to boycott...