Word: crenshaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Janus sought organizers from the unofficial basketball cheering squad, which a group of students formed on their own a few years ago. Janus offered the squad University sponsorship and uniforms. Butler, who is a member of the basketball squad, willingly accepted the captaincy; Janet Crenshaw '82 agreed to be manager. They held try-outs in September and signed up everyone: 14 women and four men; and a third of the women were on the original basketball squad...
Shirley J. Crenshaw...
...purse snatchings occur with depressing regularity in many-though obviously not all-of the nation's city schools. Declares Los Angeles' Principal Sid Thompson: "For teachers and students alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...
Some educators sadly observe that elaborate security arrangements only shift the scene of the crimes elsewhere. "It's a community problem," says Crenshaw Principal Thompson. "We can secure the schools, but that doesn't secure the communities." Perhaps not, but it is certainly an important first step...