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P:The University of Pennsylvania suffered the year's first major outbreak of spring high jinks. The trouble began when six students decided to set up a roadblock on Philadelphia's busy Locust Street. Within a short while, 500 other students joined the fun, began hurling eggs at police who tried to break up the roadblock. At one point the police appeared to have won the day, but as soon as they left the scene, the students began swarming back into Locust Street, and when the police reappeared, began throwing eggs and stones again. This time the police went after the rioters in earnest. Result: 116 students landed in the clink, and 28, charged with everything from disturbing the peace to assault and battery, were held for the grand jury.

P:While fusty critics of public education might worry about the perilous state of high-school Latin, physics and mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, was all aglow over another trend. Driver education, reported T.C. happily, is now "the fastest-growing program in the country." Today four out of ten high schools teach it, making students "safer members of traffic society."

P:Since far more young men are reaching military age than the armed services have room for, said President Charles Cole of Amherst, "a great many are going to escape military service altogether. The manifest unfairness of a system that requires such service from only half or a third of the male youth will gradually make it intolerable." Furthermore, said Cole. "As things stand a soldier is no sooner trained to handle an electronic or other device than his term of service expires." Cole's suggested remedy: the armed services should maintain a nucleus of highly trained long-term enlistees as well as a system of recruitment that "will be truly universal and will be based on a short term--say, three to six months' service."

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