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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends and fighting all the time anyway," grins Shawn's father, Victor, 28, a carpenter. "I think it will help them mature." Adds Dan Casarez Sr., 27, a Tucson truck driver: "It'll toughen them up. I'm learning to box here too, so I can teach this guy. He'll be my champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...more control over a student plan of study. But faculties differ over how many and which areas of study are important and in whether or not to require all students to take specific courses or to let them choose from a selection. Universities also sometimes lack people qualified to teach the courses they want to offer...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Core: Fashionable Trendsetter In Liberal Arts Curriculum Reform | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...basics" because "it implies that you have joined a movement of dinosaurs who don't have modern liberal education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention span of television instead of the long attention span of Tolstoy," says Riesman...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Core: Fashionable Trendsetter In Liberal Arts Curriculum Reform | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

Barbara Rosenkrantz, professor of the History of Science, next Wednesday, 8 p.m., at 3 Church St., will not speak on "A Social History of Disease and Health in America" as the next installment in the Cambridge Forum series on "What's Teach...

Author: By Gideon Gil and Jay Yeager, S | Title: There Aren't No Lectures To Be Heard | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...Economics Department, some professors don't seem to meet Rosovsky's standard. Only about half the tenured faculty members in Economics teach as many as two full courses, and substantially fewer than half teach as many as one full course for undergraduates. Rosovsky, in his "yellow letters," which evaluated the quality of undergraudate education at Harvard, in October, 1974, noted that between 1945 and 1974 the proportion of courses in which undergraduates were enrolled declined 28 per cent...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Professional Moonlighting | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

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