Word: triton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson went out like racehorses, rattling Mass. Maritime goalie Russ Wilson with six goals in the first 8:50 of the game. Faught commenced the pop-gun barrage with a tally on an assist from Hank Leopold, and Martin quickly followed with a first-quarter hat trick before Triton coach Bob Schillinglaw, in a futile attempt to regroup, called time-out at the nine-minute mark...
First, a wild pass eluded Mike Stewart at the offensive blue line and Mass Bay's Tom Scannell took off on a breakaway to notch the go-ahead goal. Then, Dea got checked off the puck at the blue line and Triton Richard Green was off on another full-rink dash and another goal. Mass...
...Date. In each career area, outside advisory committees help the faculty shape programs to keep them up to date. The electronics curriculum recently eliminated study of the vacuum tube and now concentrates on transistors and integrated circuits. When job openings slackened in optical technology and civil engineering, Triton dropped both courses. Among the newest programs: the training of staff for day-care centers...
...courses in basic writing and mathematics. "We take lower ability kids, yes," says Biology Chairman Don Giersch, "but we're able to instill confidence in a lot that might have bombed out elsewhere right away." Conversely, through the College Level Examination Program, older students can get credit at Triton for learning acquired outside the classroom...
Many legislators and establishment educators still treat Triton and its ilk like adolescent stepchildren. Although Illinois' community colleges enroll more than half the students in public higher education in the state, they receive only 13% of the higher-education budget. Similar slights are common across the country. Yet for many students who aspire to being something between ditchdigger and a nuclear physicist, the public community colleges are clearly filling an important void...