Word: factor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another factor causing student unrest. Blaine said, is the change in the composition of college student bodies. Fifty-five per cent of high school students go to college today, compared...
Quarterback Bryan Marini leads a backfield of fullback Gerry Hart and halfbacks Jim Rianoshek and Tom Spotts that is not far behind Harvard's in rushing yardage. And, although Marini's passing is unimpressive and should not be a factor in the scoring, the Bruin backs could be dangerous, especially if the Crimson defense has another...
...Dodd committee feels that a prime factor in school violence these days is racial desegregation. For one thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment...
Shoulder to Shoulder. Another factor in classroom violence, says the committee, is overcrowded juvenile correction centers. In Washington, the juvenile reception home was designed to house 75 youths; it now holds 375. At the Philadelphia Youth Study Center, reports a committee investigator, rows of sullen boys often sit shoulder to shoulder all day on rows of wooden benches, getting up only for meals and a brief recreation period. With no place to put violent youngsters, authorities are forced to turn them loose-and compulsory attendance laws send them right back to school...
...among women who have their first sexual experience early in life, and those who have many sex partners; it is somewhat more prevalent among women who have their first pregnancy early. Frequency of sexual intercourse with a single partner does not seem to be related to the disease. A factor unrelated to social class is a woman's medical history; if she reports frequent spotting, inter-menstrual bleeding or discharge, she runs a 3½ times greater-than-average risk of developing uterine cancer...