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...would like to help bridge those two worlds as a social worker, has been accepted for graduate study at the Columbia School of Social Work. She admires those of her generation-including both of her two older sisters?who have joined the Peace Corps. But she expresses the consensus of her class in insisting that there is a more urgent need for service in U.S. cities. Even the suburbs need help, she adds wryly: "A lot of white suburban society is sick...
...ready to bandle such a wildly gyrating piece, and with a little spiritless effort they got it out of the way. Mr. Corley had obviously cultivated a style better suited to the three remaining works--a straightforward approach that concentrates on accuracy, balance, and ensemble. In any case, the consensus at Sanders Theater (both orchestra and audience) seemed to be that there were better things to do that evening...
...student activists who took advantage of the university's traditional leniency toward on-campus pranks. But she also accused the administration of failing to recognize the right of students to share in campus authority, and of being unresponsive to community needs. Dr. Mead also reflected a campus consensus that the trustees were also at fault. Said she: "We can no longer have privately endowed universities governed by boards of trustees that are not responsive to anyone but themselves...
...them out of those offices. They do. Tom Hayden is out now. He yells "Keep the radio on! Peking will instruct you!" When they have 60 of us out they take us to the paddy wagons at mid-campus. I want to make them carry us, but the consensus is that it's a long, dark walk and we'll be killed if we don't co-operate, so I walk. At the paddy wagons there are at least a thousand people cheering us and chanting Strike! Strike! Strike! We are loaded in a wagon and the doors shut. John...
...course, would not guarantee the Ed School a prospering community program. Not even reformers know whether the Ed School's revised posture is acceptable to the community. And the rhetoric pouring out of Roxbury in the wake of King's assassination has provided little indication of where the community consensus lies. "There are going to be gatekeepers," says Thomas. "No one knows quite how these gatekeepers are going to operate, including, in many cases, the gatekeepers...