Word: binghamton
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When he quit his job with the railroad this past summer, he and his Caddy traveled all over the east coast. After seeing the Carolihas and Maine, he went to Woodstock, a 100-mile drive from his home in Binghamton, New York...
...surprised. "Nixon's statement shows little understanding of the nature of student grievances," said Thomas Dawson, a Stanford junior. "The letter doesn't deal with the real issue at all," added John Simpson, editor of the student newspaper at the State University of New York's Binghamton campus. "We ought to be looking at what is wrong rather than talking about quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems to eliminate any form of dissent." Nixon has "contributed to the polarization...
...football career started in high school when he played offensive guard and linebacker on the varsity for three years. In his senior year, Farneti's school, Binghamton (N.Y.) North, won the league championship with an undefeated record as he garnered all-state and All-American honors...
Beyond the Teacher. Another scholarly convert to trots is Dante Expert Aldo Bernardo, humanities chairman of S.U.N.Y.'s Binghamton campus, who once considered it criminal to read The Divine Comedy in anything but the original. "If the kids have to be exposed to an interpretation of this stuff," he explains now, "it had just as well be mine." Actually, as Beebe sees it, some of the opposition has come from teachers' fear that the guides "may put into the hands of the students more information about a given work than the teacher knows himself." Since many...
...Public Swarthmore. At Binghamton, the goal of President Bruce Dearing is to maintain the humanistic emphasis of a small, lively liberal arts college (3,166 students) even while developing a full-scale graduate program. S.U.N.Y. acquired the school in 1950 from Syracuse University, swiftly built it into a school often described as "the public Swarthmore." Dearing, who taught English at Swarthmore for ten years, is convinced that Binghamton can combine quality with quantitative growth, but concedes that he will "start dragging my heels" when enrollment approaches...