Legal issues raised by the movement to divestiture of university investments in South African concerns are addressed. Outlined are the standards of care for trustees in the management of university funds, with implications for the economic health of the institution. (Journal availability: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 10368 W. Centennial Rd.,…

Livingston College was established to provide a terminal social science program, particularly for lower-income minority students, though the majority of its students are Jewish and middle class. Despite efforts to make Livingston a model college, however, external social, racial, and economic variables cannot be controlled. (Author/GC)

Evangelical student groups are involved in developing campus action strategies to promote their beliefs and to challenge practices and viewpoints which they oppose. This article identifies the new activists and discusses their impact on campus and the nature of their concerns. (RC)

Argues that movements employ a series of strategic guiding "topoi" and examines activism, antagonism, agonism, and futurism. Concludes that when all four rhetorical topoi are present an "avant-garde" movement of radical proportions exists. (JMF)

A little over ten years ago, Herbert Marcuse found himself in the cross fire of the student movement. The radical right saw in Marcuse an incitement to revolutionary action, but individualism distinguished him from doctrinaire Marxists. He upheld the importance of pure contemplation and theory. (MLW)

Reports on a study that examined teacher attitudes and behaviors in the community the classroom, and the school. Concludes that teachers, although active in their communities, are reluctant to assume a critical stance in relation to school authorities and tend to pass this lesson in conformity on to their students. (Author/GC)

The relative calm of the 1970s is contrasted with the activism of the 1960s in American universities. Some explanations for the current lack of political concern on campus are offered, including the lack of clearly threatening foreign policy issues, economic problems, and disillusionment with past politics. (JMF)

The past decade featured contributions by Indian novelists, short story writers, and poets that have the potential of becoming true national Indian literature. Article comments on some of the more prominent works by Indian writers in the 1970s. (DS)

This article focuses on three new forms of student activism: lobbying, trusteeing, and collective bargaining. Related aspects of student involvement in the political, legal, and consumer areas are discussed briefly. (Author)

The president of the national Parent Teacher Association discusses the organization's activism and its areas of major concern--collective bargaining, urban education, the establishment of a Department of Education, and community support for public education. (IRT)

Dissatisfied with recent educational accomplishments under Mao, the new regime is purging radicals from the universities and raising the banner of intellectual standards. (Editor/LBH)

Describes a six-unit case study curriculum package designed for secondary and college-level courses relating to environmental education. The units deal with nuclear power, stream channelization, a river dam project, overgrazing of public lands, agribusiness versus the family farm, and swamp preservation. (Author/DB)

Argues that trustees at public colleges and universities need to take a more activist role in the governance of their institutions. Maintains that trustees have ceded too much of their power to appointed campus executives, and then given these executives too much authority to run the institutions. Many trustees also fail to address broad academic…

Members of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), which translates to Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, report that their movement is being targeted by school administrators across the country due to its demands for Chicano/Latino studies programs and protests against anti-immigration and anti-affirmative action movements.…