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...finished second to Tiger Gordon Christie, in 24:11. In third place was Harvard's Andy Gerkin, who ran well for the second week in a row. The Crimson's other scorers were co-captain Felix Rippy (24:37) in eighth place and Bruce Weber (24:58) in twelfth. Rippy finished only six seconds behind the fifth, sixth and seventh man, making the race closer than the score appears...
Southie is also the only district school that requires all ninth-graders to study a foreign language. In addition to a mandatory English course, ninth-and tenth-graders must take a reading and writing workshop that continues hi the eleventh and twelfth grades if the student does not do well. Daily attendance rates have risen 14% in the past year. Says Winegar: "You don't change a school with programs. You change a school with philosophy. We want to help young people battle their way into the mainstream...
...first-graders and 24% for second-graders, but 15% of first-and second-graders have been kept back. Hawkins is unapologetic. Says he: "Retention is not necessarily destructive to self-image. If you really want to see trauma, go to a high school and see a twelfth-grader reading at fourth-grade level. That's trauma...
Typically enough, Detroit's upheaval started with a routine police action. Seven weeks ago, in the Virginia Park section of the West Side, a "blind pig" (afterhours club) opened for business on Twelfth Street, styling itself the "United Community League for Civic Action." Along with the booze that it offered to minors, the "League" served up black-power harangues against Whitey's exploitation...
...timing was masterly. When Presidential Hopeful Walter Mondale stepped to the rostrum at a forum held by the twelfth annual Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) convention last week in Atlanta, he turned to acknowledge the organization's national president, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "President Jackson," he nodded. As laughter rippled through the crowd, Mondale turned to his fellow Democrats on the dais, Senators Alan Cranston and Ernest Rollings, paused and playfully inquired, "President Jackson...