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...Office of Economic Opportunity has granted the University $73,000 to set up a year-round program of teaching and counseling for bright but poor Cambridge high school students...
...members since 1957 not to participate in races, but Ford and Chrysler have openly broken the ban, and General Motors does not prevent its dealers from slipping cars onto local drag strips. Racing spurs the sales of the winning car, especially in the Southern states where there's year-round weather for racing-and the auto fatality rate is the nation's highest. Says Chrysler Safety Director Roy Haeusler: "I find very little defense for our advertising the racing aspects of our cars." To back the contention that speed sells and safety does not, automakers cite...
...trimester system as mainly responsible for doubling operational costs per student. While Pitt retained 70% of its faculty to handle the summer trimester, only one-fourth of its undergraduate enrollment showed up. A study at the Binghamton campus of the State University of New York showed that year-round operation, designed to handle about 50% more students, attracted almost no increase...
...trimester is not yet dead. About 55 colleges now use it, and some, including the University of Michigan, find that it is working well. Most colleges -about 1,780-remain on the semester system, while more than 300 operate on the year-round quarterly system that Florida will...
Recruiting, selection, and training have been rethought and changed in the past year. The Corps will seek out the activist on campus, go to the unions for blue-collar workers, to 4-H clubs for future farmers. It will try to establish a year-round interest in the Corps on the campuses by sponsoring seminars to be attended by returned volunteers and recruiting professors to serve as advisors overseas during sabbaticals. Starting with about one third of this summer's programs, the Corps will get rid of lectures and role learning in training. It will try to prepare Volunteers...