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...report issued by the society, Physicist Larry Medsker of the New Jersey Institute of Technology surveys nine renewable energy sources and finds that all have potentially unwelcome, occasionally even hazardous, side effects. The burning of wood can deplete forests and increase air pollution. Building towers to harness wind may disrupt wildlife habitats and the migratory flights of birds. Fires in homes with photovoltaic cells can result in the release of noxious fumes. And direct use of the sun could add to urban sprawl since collection devices are not as efficient in high-rise apartments as they are in small houses...
...college from 20% to 70%. A big attraction is low tuition (sometimes free, as in all of California's and some of New York's public junior colleges) and the relative cheapness of living at home. Particularly in an urban setting, these colleges are what Leland L. Medsker, vice chairman of the University of California's Center for the Study of Higher Education, calls the "opportunity college" for impoverished, ill-prepared youths and minority groups...
While the performance of specific junior colleges varies from dismal to superb, they are doing best in preparing their students for senior colleges. Medsker and California's Dr. Dorothy M. Knoell recently found that 75% to 80% of the junior college students who transfer succeed in earning their bachelor degrees, and that as a group, their senior college grades average only a shade lower than those of the students who spend all four years on the bigger campus...
Technical graduates perform well in their jobs, particularly when their training coincides with the needs of industries in the locality of the college. But Medsker contends that too many junior colleges tend to belittle their middle-track duty of providing a general education for the nontransfer, nontechnical student. Counseling is also often inept. The failure to give this type of student a meaningful broad education is a serious fault, since two-thirds of all students entering junior college profess an intention to continue to a senior college-but only one-third actually...
Teachers Who Teach. The strain is so great that Medsker foresees a major decision within five years on whether the junior colleges will continue to perform both academic and vocational functions. He argues strongly for continuing the present system because a combined institution is more economical and avoids a "scarring" experience for the student who otherwise might flunk out of a four-year college, then enter a technical school. Flushed with their liberal arts success, some of the nation's junior colleges are already converting to regular four-year institutions -a trend that most educators earnestly deplore, since...