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Thus far medical students have been reasonably civil in their confrontations with school authorities. But their demand for "relevance" is every bit as insistent as it is among undergraduates. "We spend eight weeks learning rat behavior and eight hours on child behavior," said a student at the University " of California's new San Diego School of Medicine. "There's an extreme imbalance there...
...lines of Grover Cleveland." Full of booze and passion for justice, he sees himself as a law and ardor candidate. His politics are symbolized by the itchy trigger finger, and his judicial philosophy is summed up in a tidy homily: "You can't serve papers on a rat." Grousing around a courthouse, he comes on Mattie (Kim Darby), a girl as flat and solid as an oak board. She talks Rooster into giving her his children's rate for catching killers...
...jungle. Why I could get to that man three times a day because I bring food to the cells. I could dash a pot of coffee in his face . . . anything." Said another, "He'd be worse off than before. He'd be branded a rat for squealing by the whole institution...
...boots, you don't get A's on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffe and you have a synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...
Cross's colleague, Halcomb, who is currently bombarding the ears of a creature with a more advanced auditory system, the guinea pig, with assorted sounds, eventually hopes to apply to man what he has learned from his music-loving rats. It may be possible, he argues, that the human infant is susceptible to far more sophisticated instruction than it ordinarily gets during its first months and years. If exposure can teach a baby rat, which to some scientists is not a very reliable creature for experimentation (TIME, Feb. 21), to discriminate between Mozart and Schoenberg, who can say what...