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...year ago, the mammoth (207,000 enrollment) City University of New York began its innovative Open Admissions program, which guaranteed classroom space to any city applicant with a high school diploma and imposed a three-semester moratorium on academic dismissals (TIME, Oct. 19, 1970). The purpose of the program was to provide an educational second chance for graduates of the city's mediocre high schools who otherwise would not qualify for college. To critics among faculty, alumni and outside educators, the experiment seemed like a formula for disaster. Many agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who warned that...
...available to Radcliffe students. RUS also gave $1200 to the United Women's Contingent, which is part of the Boston Peace Action Coalition, the money coming from an anti-war fast held two years ago, in which students skipped three meals and sent the rebate to the Moratorium Committee. Their check was never cashed. Three weeks ago the RUS legislature passed a motion allowing the money to be given to another anti-war group that met the mandate's requirements. RUS is also planning a Colloquium on women to be held in December, at which Boston women who hold jobs...
...underground. But as far as the public is concerned, I'm just another crooked cop." One portion of the public was especially indignant. The Harlem numbers operators protested the fact that white policemen were taking so much money out of the community. They called for a 90-day moratorium on all numbers arrests and police payoffs while they draft legislation that would legalize numbers gambling. In addition, their bill will pledge them to return 10% of the more than $200 million-a-year take to the community for economic development...
...political demarcation between NAC and Weatherman, which had never been precise, blurred through the Spring of 1970. NAC sponsored a riot in Harvard Square following the April 15th Moratorium. The political goal of breaking all those windows in Harvard Square, if there was any at all, must have been to affirm with some violent deed the words, "Solidarity with the Vietnamese." Dick wrote a piece the day before the action in Harvard Square called, "Stay in the Streets." He wrote...
However the court rules on the argument that capital punishment is cruel and unusual, its decision to consider it means another extension of the 3½-year-old U.S. moratorium on executions...