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Report Card P:At Barnard College in Manhattan, the undergraduate paper, the Bulletin, created a major tizzy when it appeared one morning last week with only a single frontpage editorial announcing that the entire Bulletin was out on strike. Reason for the strike: college officials were censuring the staff for its insistence that Barnard girls be allowed to visit the rooms of Columbia College students. The editors of the Bulletin promptly disowned the edition, said they were not on strike, and had never even "considered the question of women visiting men." Who, then, had written the editorial? At week's end the Barnard women had only their suspicions: the Columbia men. P:In spite of a special faculty committee's recommendation to the contrary, the board of trustees at Rutgers University ordered two professors--Historian Moses I. Finley and Physicist Simon W. Heimlich--dismissed unless they answer the questions of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as to whether they are or ever were members of the Communist Party. Said the trustees: "The refusal of a faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence in his fitness to teach. It is also incompatible with the standards required of him as a member of his profession." P:In South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan, as Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch, 1) gave his son his B.A. degree, and 2) issued a few stern Malan-props about a university's obligation to segregate its nonwhites. The nonsegregated Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, said he, "are a blatant anomaly . . . A university, according to them, need not take into account state policies or the fundamental character of the people. University freedom, they hold, is unlimited, including the right . . . even to say whether the particular university will be for both whites and non-whites or not. On the contrary, universities must bear the same general character as the state itself."

P:Angered by the local P.T.A.'s criticism of the way schools teach the three Rs these days, the sophomore class of Washington's Coulee Dam High School challenged the grown-ups to an old-fashioned spelling bee. Last week, for 20 minutes, the grown-ups did their best, but they missed embarrassment, flubbed efficiency, collapsed on laboratory and paraffin. Final score: victory for the sophomores, 10 to 6.

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