Word: cents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent voting turn-out by the Radcliffe student body is necessary to make the referendum valid. Approval by a majority of those voting will put the new constitution into effect...
Some arbitrariness was of course unavoidable in setting the minimum number of petitioners at twenty per cent of the undergraduate body, but the majority of the Council felt that this figure would be high enough to exclude all but the most earnest petitions. The SFAC would in any case be empowered to reject a petition if it were contested by an opposing group of students or for other; substantive reasons...
...sample about 1000 were technical students, 1000 non-technical, and 1000 graduate business students. About 70 per cent of the non-technical sample plan to go on to graduate school somewhere, and 34 per cent ultimately to have a career with an industrial or business firm. Only 25 per cent said they wanted to go into education, while 20 per cent plan to be self employed and 5 per cent want to go into government...
MORE than 50 per cent of the sample said they would prefer to work for an employer who would finance continued education, specifically a formal degree program. Such a program is now being offered by the First National Bank of Chicago. Under its Scholar Program students are sent to a graduate business school to earn an MBA degree. The bank pays both tution and a salary and recognizes the student's need for study time...
Many interesting hypotheses can be drawn from these findings. Sixty per cent of the sample were eligible for the draft, and of these two thirds plan to go to graduate school. However, many of these responses were given before the new Selective Service ruling. It is impossible to judge from these figures how many of these students were planning to continue their education solely as a means of avoiding the draft. But it will be interesting to see if there is a significant drop in this percentage in subsequent years...