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...issue opens with a piece by Martin Trow the sociologist from Berkeley, who touches on a variety of topics. He traces the growth of the university since the War, and the problems created by growth...
...Trow's conclusions are pessimistic. He forecasts more repressive sanctions by the public and the authorities against disruptions within the university, a greater migration of scholars out of the university and into research foundations, a sharper distinction than ever before between "service," and scholarly institutions, and the evolution of a new kind of undergraduate education for those students who demand "relevance" -students who, in his view, do not belong in college anyway...
...RADICAL perspective of the next essay contradicts Trow's argument. Jill Conway, a young historian at the University of Toronto, thinks that the problem is a basic misapprehension of the social function of the university in America. Miss Conway maintains that the young radicals have correctly understood what the political function of the university is in this country. The university exists to create a professional elite, and it is the irresponsibility of that elite in isolating itself from the basic human problems of the oppressed while participating in industrial and defensive research which has caused the crisis of the university...
...BLATANT HOMOSEXUAL. Chaucer's Pardoner in The Canterbury Tales had a voice "small as a goat's. He had no beard nor ever would have, his face was as smooth as if lately shaven; I trow he were a mare or a gelding." This is the eunuch-like caricature of" femininity that most people associate with homosexuality. In the 1960s he may be the catty hairdresser or the lisping, limp-wristed interior decorator. His lesbian counterpart is the "butch," the girl who is aggressively masculine to the point of trying to look like a man. Blatants also include "leather boys...
...Norfolk team's leading scorers, Art Devlin and Tom McInerney, are publishing a colection of quiz questions entitled "Questions from the Rockpile." Their teammates Saturday night were Robert Trow, Frank Visser, and James Lang...