Word: stepchild
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Vincennes was a stepchild of the university reforms that followed the French student rebellion of 1968. Its original purpose was to help break the French university system of its traditional and often rigid emphasis on formal, elitist-oriented training. Accordingly the new school offered such courses as History of Cinema, Sexology, and Third World Economics and Politics, shocking to conservative French educators. Most revolutionary of all, Vincennes, alone among French universities, dispensed with the usual entrance requirement, the dread "bac" (baccalauréat degree), more or less the equivalent of two years of U.S. college. By admitting non-bacs...