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Sherry Osborne twists, grinds, bumps and shakes two nights a week at the AH Baba Club in Schenectady, N.Y. She is 19, curvy, and makes $100 a week as a go-go dancer. During the day she is a senior at Albany's Philip Schuyler High School. Like 80% of Schuyler's 800 students, Sherry works for a living-which is just how Principal Ben Becker expects...
...Schuyler is not an ordinary high school, nor is Becker an ordinary principal. Located in Albany's slum-ridden east side, it is an academy for hard cases-40% are Negro, many of the students come from broken homes, still others are dropouts from other schools. But Ben Becker is a hard case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal...
...Problem Kids. Backed by the Albany Board of Education, Becker has proved that tough but fair discipline is a remarkable impetus to learning. There are no broken windows at Schuyler High School, and rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen...
Dunster's Jim Beuchi scored first shortly after the opening whistle. Jeff Schmidt and Bill Schaefer put the Elephants out in front near the end of the period. Just before the end of the game Schuyler Hollingsworth of Dunster completed the scoring, making...
...meritorious police work, violated any department regulations. It will be under heavy pressure to find against him. Yet it should go without saying that anyone being attacked with a knife has a right to defend himself-and the grand jury displayed no doubt at all about that. Declared George Schuyler, one of two Negroes serving on the 23-man jury: "Our decision was unanimous. I did the right thing, and so did the rest of the jury...