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JOHN F. CARR, Winthrop; Associate Manager, football; Junior usher; HYDC; Varsity Club; Pi Eta; Hasty Pudding...
ROBERT B. CLEARY, Winthrop; Varsity Hockey, captain; Varsity Baseball, captain; Undergraduate Athletic Council; Pi Eta; Hasty Pudding; Varsity Club; Bat Club...
THOMAS C. COCHRAN, JR., Winthrop; Freshman, Varsity swimming; P.B.H.; Varsity Club; Pi Eta; Hasty Pudding; Pre-Medical Society; Bat Club...
Japan's untouchables live in 6,000 more or less rigidly segregated communities. Commercial firms generally refuse to hire them, and when an eta seeks to "pass over" by hiding his origins, discovery can mean divorce, suicide, and occasionally even murder. In Saitama prefecture one day recently, an eta suicide left a note saying: "Even in death I cannot forget I am an eta. I hope I will be reborn in a better place.'' In Tokyo last year, an appeal for nondiscrimination brought offers from a number of small business firms to hire etas...
...makes no bones about his own eta origin is blunt, 70-year-old Juichiro Matsumoto, a respected Socialist in the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the Japanese Diet. He says angrily: "There are many eta people who have risen to top ranks in their professions, including screen stars and flower-arranging masters, but they dare not be frank about their origin because their popularity would immediately drop. But before we blame them, we must blame Japan's society, which permits such discrimination...