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> When the San Francisco board of education announced recently that it no longer had enough money to pay coaches and teachers overtime and had to cancel all after-school sports, drama, music and forensics programs, everybody pitched in to help. The coaches agreed to work one year without overtime pay, and private donations of $70,000 rescued some of the cultural programs. That barely put a dent in the board's $4 million deficit, but Rock Impresario Bill Graham may yet save the day. He has scheduled a benefit concert of ten major acts (including the Jefferson Starship, Joan Baez and Santana) in the city's 59,626-seat Kezar Stadium. The concert, on March 23, is called SNACK, Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks; the audience will pay a $5 admission to boogie down from midmorning to dusk. In addition, Graham will sell special SNACK T shirts for $4 each, and all proceeds, after expenses, will go to the schools.

> Like many small liberal arts colleges, tiny (596 men, 503 women) Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, has been having trouble recruiting students. Now, perhaps inspired by the Detroit automakers' rebate plan to increase sales,

Heidelberg's 39 trustees reached into their own pockets for a $125,000 kitty to underwrite a merit-scholarship plan. Students at or near the top of their high school class will be offered scholarships in the form of reduced tuition charges. For the most deserving, as much as $1,000 will be sliced from the college's $2,520 tuition.

> After the school board in the quiet desert town of Apple Valley, Calif., voted to fire high school Gym Teacher Lou Zivkovich last fall because he had appeared nude in the centerfold of Playgirl magazine, Zivkovich, 33, appealed the decision. Last week a state appeals panel admonished him for a "mistake in judgment," but ruled that he could not be fired. Zivkovich, who received $1,000 plus an expenses-paid weekend in Hawaii for his extracurricular modeling job, called the ruling a "national victory" for the rights of teachers.

> A report on Harvard and Radcliffe admissions last week proposed the inevitable: the two schools should adopt a sex-blind admissions policy "as soon as practical", meaning next year. Such a policy would probably not immediately alter the current ratio of 2.5 men to every woman, because fewer women apply. Harvard President Derek Bok and Radcliffe President Matina Horner issued a joint statement saying that the major recommendations of the report "seem to us to have great merit." The proposals still have to be approved by the faculty and trustees. But some Harvard officials and alumni are worried about the long-range consequences. They feel that the proportion of female students will eventually rise, resulting in a smaller number of male students and thus fewer sons of Harvard fathers. Furthermore, men usually contribute more to alumni fund-raising drives than do women.

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