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...replaced by smaller cars. The automakers expect to sell more of the handy vans that are already a part of the youth culture as well as more recreational vehicles: motor homes, campers, dune buggies, Jeeps, motorcycles and mopeds. Education may finally get better, as the teacher-student ratio improves. Says Economist Alan Sweezy of the California Institute of Technology: "I think ZPG is going to be a very good thing for higher education...
Verba said yesterday "grading will not be a big concern of mine," and that his first and most important task as department chairman will be to expand the Government faculty to increase the teacher-student ratio and the number of course offerings...
...attend free, compulsory state schools. For the nation's 3.7 million black students, however, attendance at separate state schools is optional, tuition costs $50 a year, and schooling is generally inadequate. The government spends ten times as much per pupil on whites as on blacks; the student-teacher ratio is 20 to 1 for whites, 60 to 1 for blacks. Better education was one of the major demands by young demonstrators in last year's riots in Soweto and other black townships, which left 500 dead. Blacks able to afford a good education have been pressing to enter...
...Changing Ratio. Despite the time he spends in high-toned gossip or cruising the underground tributaries of the gay world, Williams remains an artist, obsessively devoted to his craft. "Ordinarily my ratio of concerns is something like this," he tells Windham. "Fifty per cent work and worry over work, 35% the perpetual struggle against lunacy, 15% a very true and very tender love for those who have been and are close to me as friends and as lover. But [sometimes] the ratio changes to something like this: Work and worry over work, 89%; struggle against lunacy (partly absorbed...
...already living there from the increase, of course. Scholarship students would be partially exempted, too, in the interests of equity. To maintain Radcliffe's four-year mix, incoming freshmen could be informed of the new rate structure before they sent in their rooming choice cards. To maintain Radcliffe's ratio near one-to-one, it's possible that one sex or the other would need an additional discount...