Relevance in Education Sparks Debate Across Colleges
Business leaders long sought practical training, while students push for up-to-date topics. The dialogue among administrators professors and politicians signals changes, with Chancellor Glenn Dumke noting the need for intellectual demand and solid achievement to strengthen colleges and society.
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Aristotle
Dante
Shakespeare
Beethoven
Kirstein
Karl Marx
Mao
Europe
Weimar Republic
Glenn Dumke
California State Colleges
Napalm debate roils Long Beach peace activists
Critics urge restraint as tensions rise over napalm plants and wartime weapon use. The group argues policy should not hinge on individual manufacturers or moral judgments of residents while calling for peace and dialogue.
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Long Beach
Auschwitz
Hidaders
Mepalm
Citizens For Peace
Letters to Editor highlight phone directory gaps in Rossmoor and Los Alamitos
Residents allege that Rossmoor does not exist in out of state directories and Los Alamitos requires precise California location details for calls. They report blocked calls from relatives, delays in emergency contact, and seek action from Long Beach and local phone services. Additional letters critique presidential mail responses and cite historical Prohibition and social issues.
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Rossmoor
Los Alamitos
California
Long Beach
Sunblade
Florida
Elizabeth Sunblade
Herbert Klein
Nixon
White House
Vivian C. Murphy
Dominion of Fear Pressures Liberty in War Era
The piece argues that wartime fear fuels proposals to curb constitutional rights. A CBS poll shows majority endorse restricting protest, criticism, and press reporting, with doubts about double jeopardy and preventive detention. It laments government incursions on Bill of Rights and urges rereading the 462 words before 1976.
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CBS News
Vietnam
My Lai
Spiro Agnew
Nal
CBS
Nixon
Senate
Burger
Supreme Court
Mitchell
Decline in campus charm and student affection
A columnist laments waning Alma Mater devotion among students and alumni, blaming postwar campus ugliness and overcrowding. Citing Dr. William R. Wood, he argues many campuses resemble asphalt jungles and dismal slums of sophistry, urging more fountains, music, and vitality to restore campus life.
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Alma Mater
Old Main
William R. Wood
University of Alaska
International College and University
Atlantic City
Academe
University Presi
Russell Kirk on campus beauty and design
Russell Kirk contends that a university should be lovely and humane not just functional. He criticizes modern campus architecture on public university and community college campuses, contrasting California institutions and Michigan, linking ugliness to bad taste and ideological shifts.
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Edmund Burke
Community Colleges of
California
University
University of Michigan
Ann Arbnr
Today's books CHANGE AT SHEBIKA Report from a North African Village
French sociologist Jean Duvignaud studies a backward village to reveal how outsiders can illuminate social change. The work, part of Pantheon’s line, examines Shobika near the Tuntajan desert and how farming and housing practices hindered progress, awakening neglected peasants to modern life.
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Shebika
Jean Duvignaud
Pantheon
Duvignaud
Ile
Shobika
Tuntajan
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