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This year's migration to the Med has already produced its own new Baedeker of unprecedented pollution, prices, crowding and-less trying of course -exposure of skin to sun (see map). Cost? A few venturesome Italians have discovered that a 15-day tour of Eastern Europe and Russia can be cheaper than two weeks at the messy beaches of Fregene, a popular resort near Rome. Pollution? The French have taken pains to clean up their beaches; however, the Mediterranean around Spain and some parts of Italy has become a mixture of urban and industrial effluents...
...Biochemistry are the only two fields that have enjoyed continual growth in student interest throughout the 60s. The reason behind this growth is the great increase in the number of undergraduates preparing for medical school. Currently, 40 per cent of all students in the College are fulfilling pre-med requirements and the figure is expected to rise to 50 per cent within two years...
Fred Fox '68, pre-med advisor to Adams House, explained that unlike other Houses which had cut back the number of tutors' meals per week, Adams House and its tutors agreed to risk drying out the meal pool "in order to clarify the issue" of decreasing University financial support for the Houses...
...School, where applications sky-rocketed by over 100 per cent between 1968 and 1971, had only 29 more applicants this year. Applications at the Business School tell off for the second consecutive year, down almost 1000 from 1970, and the Med School received 63 fewer applications this year than last, when it reached an all-time peak...
...reversal may have an opposite effect. Now shaky applicants who figured that the application increase would continue indefinitely are scurrying off to testing centers to retake Law Boards and Med Boards. But next year, when figures are collated again, they'll find that they have no monopoly on seizing the moment with this tactic of retreat and advance...