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Former New Orleans Mayor Ernest "Dutch" Morial said that "we are in an era of broader citizen participation," brought about by the programs of the 1960's and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which dramatically increased Black voter registration...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Dukakis Praises Urban Renewal | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...page study, titled College: The Undergraduate Experience in America, draws on surveys of 5,000 college faculty, 4,500 undergraduates and 1,300 presidents and other administrators, as well as 1,200 high school students. The author, Carnegie President Ernest L. Boyer, points to the realities beneath such vocationalism: between now and 1990 there will be 12 million to 13 million jobs for some 15 million baccalaureate earners. The University of Illinois reports that only 19% of its humanities students have guaranteed jobs upon graduation, vs. 90% for business majors. Small wonder that according to U.S. Government statistics, bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Is College For? | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Democratic incumbent Sen. Ernest Hollings won re-election. In a tightly contested governor's race Republican Caroll Campbell defeated conservative Democrat Mike Daniel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTION '86: The Roundup | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

Drug-testing imbroglios have also broken out in campaigns in Virgina and Arkansas, with candidates of both parties racing to get their specimens to the lab before their opponents. One of the few voices of sanity amid the madness has been that of Senator Ernest Hollings. The South Carolina Democrat refused his challenger's call to take a drug test: "I'll take a drug test as soon as my opponent takes an I.Q. test," he said. Case closed...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Urinvestigations | 10/21/1986 | See Source »

...University is trying to halt publication of his book, Simpson said, because Harvard University Press plans to publish in May, 1987, the second volume of Ernest Samuels' "Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend." Samuels is Berenson's official biographer...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Writer Says Harvard Is Suppressing Book | 10/9/1986 | See Source »

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