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Yesterday afternoon, at its annual convention in Washington, the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted to place Yale University on athletic probation for two years for using a basketball player, Jack Langer, that the NCAA had declared ineligible.
The demonstrators occupied the university offices half-an-hour after the start of a rally called to protest the expulsion of Michael Albert- the president of M.I.T.'s. Undergraduate Association- and the placing of two other students on probation for their roles in demonstrations at M.I.T. last fall.
The blacks are highly sensitive about special treatment, though many of them do need and get unusual consideration. The University of Chicago normally requires an applicant to score at least 650 (out of a possible 800) on his law-school aptitude test; but a few blacks have been admitted with...
- At Yale University, 47 students suspended for occupying the personnel office were reinstated on disciplinary probation for the rest of the year. The building seizure was the first in Yale's recent history; intended to make officials retract the firing of a black woman cafeteria employee, it worked. Said...
Until about five years ago, a student caught shoplifting would be automatic-ally severed by the University, but recently cases have been handled more leniently. According to one senior tutor, a student was severed this year for a combination of shoplifting and previous offenses, but often the punishment for a...