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Cambridge Mayor Albert E. Vellucci, chairman of the School Committee, said Monday that this move was designed to "weed out the strangers from the school...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: School Committee Decides Not to Use Police Patrols | 2/18/1971 | See Source »

...Sacramento, Calif., William Raymond, 12, was indoctrinated at school on the evil effects of marijuana. Thus when he noticed some suspicious weed around the house, he called the local sheriff's office. Finding 31 partially smoked joints and more marijuana stashed in plastic bags, the police arrested William's father. In Springfield, Mass., last week, Donald Sasen, 10, turned in his baby sitter and three other teen-agers for smoking grass in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Next Generation | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Their perceptions of themselves are tossed through the stories like pieces of sea-weed in the waves, mangled and trembling. In the story "Four Summers." we get glimpses of a girl from childhood until her first pregnancy. Talking about herself, her voice is hauntingly complacent...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Books The Wheel of Love and Other Stories | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

...those completing sophomore studies should get another escape hatch from the academic grind-the A.A. (associate of arts) degree. As the commission sees it, this would equip the impatient for immediate jobs and also weed the campuses of those who now waste time in "aimless experimentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Less College for More People | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

John Barth, author of The Sot-Weed Factor, Lost in the Funhouse, and End of the Road, will be at Harvard this Spring. Although he won't be teaching, he may be living in Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barth Will Come For Study Here In Spring Term | 10/29/1970 | See Source »

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