Word: antioch
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Such mixing of the sexes is evidence that colleges are more than willing to stop playing the role of puritanical parental surrogates. At Antioch College in Ohio, where all but three dorms are coed, Associate Dean Jean Janis explains why: "The more responsibility you give students, the more they are able to assume." The trend disturbs some parents, especially those with daughters. Yet most school officials maintain that coeducational living does not lead to increased sexual activity. According to Stanford Psychologist Joseph Katz, an incest taboo develops in coed dorms as a result of a brother-sister relationship between...
...autonomous racial schools, there will be court action to determine anyone's right to use public tax funds to set up what are, patently, Jim Crow schools." Sure enough, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare last month threatened to withhold federal funds from Ohio's Antioch College unless the school desegregates its blacks-only Afro-American Studies Institute, which opened last fall...
...purposes. But education should not be made subservient to their needs, particularly since grades interfere with the learning process. Graduate schools and employers could device their own mechanisms of evaluation and selection if students were not graded, as already happens with students from a number of colleges, such as Antioch, which do not grade...
...Antioch students have expressed some dissatisfaction with the all-back program. Kurt D. Kahler, a freshman, said yesterday that many students feel that the blacks "have withdrawn too much from the rest of the college...
...requirements forbid the restriction of course enrollment to blacks only and would halt federal grants to colleges with segregated programs. Antioch College is among the schools currently violating these guidelines...