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...LEFT the Orson Welles, I had a rush of understanding. Australia is the most urbanized country in the world. Eighty per cent of its people live in its cities. Much as we Americans cling to a self-image of rugged individualism while going to work every day for IBM, Australians see themselves as tough rural types bonded by the 'mateship' of the bush. The reality is different. Huddled together in the cities, they turn their backs on the inhospitable and incorruptible land. The ones who choose to live in the wild become the crazies about whom the bush ballads...
Ursula Wagener, assistant dean for academic affairs at the School of Education, said that although women comprise 58 per cent of the students at the School, very few women hold significant positions. Women hold four out of 21 tenured faculty positions at the Ed School...
...numbers of students choosing to become doctors and lawyers and such have not changed much--but the intensity with which they pursue their goals has. Starting in 1972, the percentage of graduating seniors planning to go on to careers in business climbed from a low of 6 per cent to a high of 15 per cent in 1976, as the corporate world lost some of the repugnance to students that it had during the war. Likewise, the percentage planning careers in government and politics climbed from 2 per cent in 1972 to 7 per cent last year. The percentages...
...units have diminished. The number of students taking leaves in each class has grown steadily from 282 in the Class of '75, to 414, or one-quarter, in the Class of '78. The number of graduates undecided about their eventual careers has climbed back up to about 10 per cent. And last year, for the first time in memory, the percentage of graduates planning to work immediately after graduation exceeded the percentage planning to go on immediately to graduate study--42 per cent versus 38 per cent--even though most still plan to go on to graduate school eventually...
...added that the stage reduces the size of the dining hall by 40 per cent or more...