Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father gloried in being a Great White Hunter; for his son, hunting was a far more serious matter. He arrived in Africa 17 years ago and earned a reputation as one of the top professional hunters in Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro area. But Ernest's son Patrick Hemingway, 40, eight years ago put away his rifle for a more rewarding job-protecting and preserving Africa's dwindling wildlife. Now Patrick is teaching conservation to 63 black African students currently enrolled at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, in northern Tanzania. "I like the work...
...ghetto is not yet ready to throw the white newsman out. But if this tour proved anything, it is that that time may be getting nigh...
...youngsters are trying to enter public colleges across the country. But if they fail to qualify, often because they went to poor high schools, how can the colleges admit them without diluting their own academic standards? More deeply, how can the colleges give blacks a break without suffering a white backlash...
...rising applications have forced tuition-free C.C.N.Y. to raise its admission standards ever higher. Meantime, poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans (now a majority in New York's public schools) have filled the slum high schools that once helped to feed the college. Lacking the stimulus of middle-class whites, who have moved elsewhere, the feeder schools have deteriorated. Despite huge enrollments, some of them now graduate as few as 15 college-qualified students a year. As a result of the population shift, C.C.N.Y. has become a white enclave in a black area. Of its 20,000 students...
...issue last week was the supposed way out: a "dual admission" plan hammered out during 37 hours of nonstop negotiations between a faculty committee and minority-group students. Under the plan, which would start in the fall of 1970, half of the freshmen class (including slum whites) would be admitted from ghetto areas "without regard to grades." After tutoring, they could go on to earn degrees in perhaps six or eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold...