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Dixon got involved with PBH her freshman year when she took a work-study job as a counselor for the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program. In the same year, she marched in front of the office of Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses, calling for the reinstatement of minority organization events on the Freshman Week calandar...
...years since World War II have brought a boom among both Evangelicals and Fundamentalists in youth ministries, foreign missions, day schools, publishing ^ and broadcasting. Political activism became necessary, as the Fundamentalists saw it, in order to try to counteract numerous unpalatable social trends and policies. Among goads to action: the 1962 and 1963 Supreme Court rulings against school prayer and Bible reading and the 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. The creation of Moral Majority and the "new religious right" resulted partly from the 1978 IRS decision to stop giving automatic tax exemptions to religious day schools and to set racial...
Free enterprises and its attendant benefits have a price, and the Reagan Administration has shown itself paradoxically unwilling to pay that price. Growth and competitiveness require investment. The most basic investment in America's future is the education of its youth, and that investment is now threatened by the Administration's desire to slash financial aid programs...
...doctor, but was also considering a career in politics. He had planned to spend the summer working at a Wall Street investment house before heading for Stanford. To teachers, neighbors and friends of the family, the Perry brothers stood as prime examples of what the black community's youth could achieve. "Everybody looked up to Jonah and Edmund," Sheila Wright, a neighbor, told the New York Times. "They were models for the other kids." Said a former teacher at Edmund's funeral: "Edmund's life was a symbol of success to all those who had encouraged, supported, coached and applauded...
Edmund's classmates at Exeter recalled him as a disciplined youth who believed that accomplished blacks had a special responsibility to prove racist stereotypes false. Said Andre Francois, an Exeter friend, in an interview with the Times: "He believed in his ability to show that we are something in a society that has given us an inferior image...