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...fact is that any board president would find the San Francisco schools a formidable challenge. As in other big-city public school systems, violence, truancy and class cutting are widespread. Science Teacher Nathan Weinstein gave failing grades to 19 of his 28 biology students at Woodrow Wilson High School last semester, mainly because they never showed up for class. Many of the students who do appear are stymied by their inability to read. Math Instructor David Friedman says the reading ability of Woodrow Wilson students is so low that teachers cannot use standard math texts, but instead must devise their...
...NATHAN A. BUCKLIN...
...attempting to set the record straight, Editors Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer turned the quarterly's winter number over to a group of analysts who have little identification with the battles of the '60s; nor did they serve in any important political offices during the decade. With cool rationality and no rancor, the analysts accommodate positions ranging from Philosopher John Rawls, who has constructed an awesome rationale for greater equality, to Urbanologist Edward Banfield, who believes largely in leaving well enough alone...
Derek C. Bok announces that after 30 months in office, he has finally determined that he is not Nathan Pusey. "I've had a committee study this thing since my first day in Mass Hall," Bok reports, "and I've also looked at the name on my bursar's card. I am definitely not Nathan Pusey, although I may indeed by Jordan Marsh...
Construction begins again on the Nathan Marsh Pusey Library after a Buildings and Grounds maintenance man discovers that the floors underground have been installed upside down. "They told me to walk down three flights to clean the skylight on the floor!" the workman reports...