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Kottmeyer, who retired in June, is especially proud of student performance vis-a-vis national averages ("for city kids, it's unheard of"), and noted that blacks showed greater advances than their white classmates. As he sees it, the project constitutes "a substantial refutation of the idea that black kids are inferior by their heritage, and therefore nothing can be done for them." Every bit as enthusiastic, many students used their newly acquired words to write glowing thank-you notes to Kottmeyer. Excerpts...
MOREOVER, as a result of the split, each faction moved to strengthen its position vis a vis the other and, in the process, moved further away from the mainstream of Harvard life. Trying to begin organizing workers, WSA members began getting jobs, often full-time ones, as workers at Harvard or in Cambridge and treated the University to the amusing spectacle of seeing its recent graduates sling hash in the dining halls. Members of NAC also tried to find a revolutionary constituency: they searched among Greater Boston blacks, tenant unions, street people and working class teenagers...
...reporting Kathy Boudin's parents' refusal to cooperate with the police following the explosion which took three lives and demolished the Wilkerson house [March 23], TIME has accidentally touched on the vital element of America's woes visa-vis "the disenchanted young people...
...accomplished nothing else, the brouhaha over Georges Pompidou's American sojourn underscored the delicate dilemma of American Jews vis-à-vis Israel. As individuals or as a community, they certainly had every right to express their feelings about the French President's pro-Arab views. But is it sound tactics or proper behavior for any group of U.S. citizens to insult a visiting head of state? Many sober-minded Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly...
...much persuading, I conned a f??ernity man into accompanying me into Chicago the next day. Promptly 5 a. m. Thursday morning Day and I entered the subway station at ??vis Street in Evanston. Our only supplies were a roastbeef sandwich sm?ggled from the fraternity house and my small sack of Marshall Field chocolate chip cookies procured the day before...