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...student applications leveled off at Minnesota's small but academically topnotch Carleton College? Research by college officials revealed that high school seniors from warmer climes were shivering over the thought of Minnesota's winters. Prospects from the East Coast worried whether Carleton was prestigious enough; laid-back Westerners, on the other hand, figured the campus might be too formal. So Carleton changed its admissions pitch. Into a shiny, new brochure went a photo of skiing on campus. Those effete Eastern intellectual snobs got a letter filled with information about faculty achievement. Westerners were told about nearby hiking trails...
...Carleton is just one of hundreds of schools that have begun to lure students with market research techniques like those used by soap and cigarette companies. Reason: tuition costs are skyrocketing and the nation's pool of 18-year-olds is shrinking (from 4.2 million in 1975 to an estimated 3.6 million...
Philly starter Steve Carleton earned the victory, giving up the four runs on eleven hits in eight innings while striking out ten. The Royals threatened the big lefthander in almost every inning, leaving 11 men on base despite grounding into three double plays. Ron Reed came on in the ninth to gain the save...
Although he can safely speculate from abroad, Aquino is conscious of the dangers of remaining here too long. As Peter Stanley, dean of Carleton College and a leading expert on the Philippines, says, "If Aquino stays at Harvard, he would either have to mount a successful operation in exile--which has never been done--or in effect rule himself out as a successor to Marcos...
...year-old Aquino was in New York yesterday. He received medical treatment in Dallas, reportedly for a heart bypass operation, and then traveled to San Francisco. But Peter Stanley, dean of Carleton College and a leading expert on the Philippines, said yesterday that since Aquino was active for his age, "it is at least possible that the official medical reports should not be taken at face value...