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...first college administrators treated voluntary self-segregation by black students as a necessary but temporary phase. They said that poor youngsters from ghettos needed to gain self-confidence before entering the mainstream of college life. That change has happened on some campuses-Harvard and Oberlin, specifically, report very little separatism-but on most campuses checked by TIME correspondents the segregation of the races appears to have become a permanent way of life. Says Senior Joe Conner, 21, chairman of the Black Student Union at the University of Southern California: "We just have no contact. They're there...
...went on to say that her major tasks for the future would be to help our students develop a strong sense of their own worth gain confidence in themselves as they master academic and social skills, and ultimately counteract the tendency to withdraw from the mainstream of thought and achievement in our society...
...named as one of her major tasks for the future the need "to counternet the tendency (of students) to withdraw from the mainstream of thought and achievement in our society...
Popkin has been engaged in a legal battle for over a year to avoid answering certain questions before the grand jury on the grounds that they are not relevant to the mainstream of its investigation...
...belonging to the organization is a decided liability for women," she said. "It keeps them out of the mainstream of contacts in the profession, where men sit as gatekeepers on jobs in the higher levels...