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Like many street Christians, Hoyt came to his vocation by a circuitous route. Born a Roman Catholic, he was once an altar boy. His well-to-do parents were divorced when he was young, and he and a brother were sent to separate boys' homes. He began to sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian...
...freely transfer in and out of the college; though the school was changed from a junior college to a four-year institution in 1965, it has still granted only 25 bachelor's degrees. Since scholarship funds are very limited, the annual cost ($3,800) discourages all but the well-to-do. In addition to these problems, Botstein must overcome the difficulties of his age. He will be younger than most of his faculty and some of his students as well...
C.H.S. is a testament to the vision and tenacity of Audrey Cohen, the young wife of a well-to-do Manhattan tax lawyer. A former CORE worker and social-studies teacher, Mrs. Cohen has long felt that thousands of inner-city adults have the untapped talent to fill skilled jobs in the nation's undermanned human-service agencies. Unfortunately, such people commonly lack the diplomas and degrees that are now mandatory for the very jobs that they could do best. In a nation that stresses formal education as salvation, bright dropouts are increasingly stymied by the paper barriers...
Despite the improved political outlook, there is growing concern over the activities of the left-wing Mouvement Militant Mauricien, a Maoist group headed by Paul Berenger, 25, son of a well-to-do middle-class Franco-Mauritian family...
...Southeast Asia, the Nixon Administration chose to further estrange itself from the nation's campuses. Vice President Spiro Agnew, speaking to Republicans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., unleashed another blunderbuss attack on colleges as "circus tents or psychiatric centers for overprivileged, under-disciplined, irresponsible children of the well-to-do blase permissivists" (see box, following page). President Nixon, in an impromptu talk at the Pentagon, referred to radical students as "these bums blowing up the campuses" and contrasted them with G.I.s fighting in Viet Nam: "the greatest kids-they stand tall and they are proud." The distinction between...