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...Dow confirms the impression. "Students who take the course are mostly graduate students, research fellows and faculty members," she reports, and she estimates that no more than six undergraduates are enrolled in the four sections this term...
...about the room suggests that English E is something other than the foreign student's counterpart to the American student's foreign language nemesis. There is a mid-to late-twenties look about the students, and a certain formal air emerges during the course of the hour. Anne R. Dow, preceptor in English who teaches all four sections, shuns the use of first names--it is always "Mr. Kobayashi" or "Mrs. Flores...
English E is billed as an "advanced" course in the Courses of Instruction catalog, and most students who choose to take it bring some sort of background in the language to the course. While Dow notes that no specific proficiency level is required to take the course, she adds that English E "is not a basic, intensive language course...
...While Dow reports no drop in the number of enrolled students since the policy change, the attractiveness of English E has diminished somewhat in the eyes of some students. "It is a foolish policy," says Benjamin Geva, a second-year law student who had to cough up the $240. "Students should be encouraged to take this course, but for many people, the cross-registration fee can be the straw that breaks the back of the camel," he adds...
...clipped and such laws as the Pension Reform Act of 1974 mandate a new prudence among managers who invest other people's money. Dozens of "index fund" managers now buy high-dividend stocks and merely try to match or slightly exceed increases in such popular price indexes as Dow Jones and Standard & Poor...