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Student life and diversity, though, has improved, Jewett says. Back in the 1950s a much higher proportion of the students came from private schools. "There was much more of sense of segregation back then," remembers Jewett, who attended public high school in Taunton, "A much higher proportion of the students belonged to the [final] clubs...
Kennedy School administrator Richard T. Howe '69 is running for State Senate in his home district, the First Bristol, as the only challenger to 24-year incumbent John F. Parker (R-Taunton...
Indeed, Jewett has spent a good deal of time getting to know students. For many years, he has served on the College's Administrative Board. Currently an associate of Quincy House, the Taunton, Mass. native has also spent time getting to know undergraduates who aren't facing disciplinary probation...
Teens seem to view smokeless tobacco as a healthier alternative to smoking. "It can't hurt you athletically like cigarettes can," Al Lawrence, 18, of Taunton, Mass., reasons. "Baseball players use it all the time." But doctors say the facts are very different. Dipping causes visible damage "in as little as three to four months," says Arden Christen, chairman of the preventive-dentistry department at Indiana University. The gums may recede, the teeth loosen, biting surfaces are abraded, and tough, white patches called leukoplakia may appear on the gums and cheeks. After several years the mouth can be devastated...
Mark McDermott, 48, a native of Taunton, Mass., was arrested at Dulles Airport because he is wanted by New Hampshire police in connection with a theft investigation. He and freed Prisoner Calvin Privette, 29, were charged with drug trafficking in Cuba in 1982 after their boat drifted into Cuban territory...