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From the faculty of 165, he cut away deadwood, hired bright mainlanders, introduced a merit system of raises that could bring a teacher with a doctorate $11,078 a year. Over a three-year period Bushong insists that teachers spend one summer in a campus workshop and one summer taking college credit courses before getting the third summer...
...parking lot there now" describes much of the old jazz scene in New York, Chicago and California, and even the best jazz musicians have to scuffle to stay busy. The scene changes from year to year-the Five Spot and the Half-Note in New York and the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco are now much like Birdland ten years ago -but the audience is steadily shrinking. Even in Manhattan, there are many nights when fewer than 200 people buy a drink to hear a serious jazzman play...
...detailed four-page application forms are examined by the staff in Jackson, Miss, SNCC workers throughout the South and North are interviewing each student who applies. And before those accepted actually enter the Magnolia State, they will attend orientation meetings in their local areas and an intensive four-day workshop, probably on a college campus. According to Dorothy Zellner, in charge of organizing in New England, "We want the most disciplined group of people we can possibly...
...think you can be nonviolent in all situations?" The Students who are admitted to the Project will be required to attend a preparatory workshop, which was originally to be held at Berea College, Ky. Berea has reneged on its offer of accommodations, but SNCC is already negotiating for another site and is certain to have one by June 15, when the program begins. The trainees will be processed in three shifts over a two week period, each student participating in the workshop four to six days...
Included in the workshop will be instructions on how to use nonviolent techniques in dangerous situations. In the past such training has included little dramas, in which the trainee will pretend to be a field-worker, while other members of the group curse him, spit on him, shove, slap, and hit him. SNCC members have found that these practice sessions help make the real-life confrontations less strange and frightening...