Education: Report Card

¶ At the University of Nebraska, hundreds of spring-feverish men students poured out of their rooms one day last week, rushed into a coed dormitory and sorority houses. There they snatched up as many flimsy garments as they could, paraded about the campus in this year's first manifestation of that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended. ¶ In a sudden burst of energy, the Georgia Board of Education carried the white man's burden into a new field: censorship. In quick succession, the board 1) objected to a new Stephen Foster songbook because the lines "Oh. darkies, how my heart grows weary" had been changed to "Oh, brothers . . ."; 2) took under advisement the long-used text, America, Land of Freedom, because it devotes "only several little paragraphs" to the South's role in the Revolutionary War; and 3) refused immediate approval of another textbook called Our Changing Social Order because of its chapter on racial "differences." Said one board member of the book: "All this section says is that all races have the same anatomy." ¶Appointment of the week: Howard R. Bowen, 46, professor of economics at W111iams College, to succeed Samuel N. Stevens as seventh president of Iowa's Grinnell College. A graduate of the State College of Washington, Bowen has served as economist for both Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. and the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 1950 ran smack into a storm of controversy when, as dean of the college of commerce at the University of Illinois, he tried to liberalize his faculty and was finally forced to resign.