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...freshmen used to quit every year from boredom. Roberts fixed that: he brought in six national fraternities and sororities, jazzed up band and football uniforms, hired Count Basic and Woody Herman for spring proms. When he introduced the trimester system this summer, he spiced the package with a noncredit term touring Europe after the junior year. To make Parsons a summer festival, he staged a moonlight Mississippi cruise. Soon due: a summer semester-end blowout, complete with genuine Indians holding up a stagecoach, and contests to choose a Miss Frontier and catch a greased pig. The freshman dropout rate...
...high of 1948, Missouri still has plenty of applicants. Some 300 students are majoring in such subjects as news-editorial, radiotelevision, and weekly and small-daily publishing. Since most of its graduates go to work for small dailies or weeklies-fully 30% stay in the state-the school offers noncredit courses in backshop work. Editors have long since been shown by Missouri; the graduating class annually has four times as many job offers as members...
...University of Illinois has announced that after September 1960 it will drop its noncredit freshman course. Rhetoric 100. The course, aimed at teaching college students "the common decencies" of spelling and grammar, is being dropped to put pressure on high schools to produce graduates with at least an elementary knowledge of how to write. Said Rhetoric 100's Professor Charles W. Roberts: "Laboring to get 18-year-old men and women to tell the difference between 'their' and 'there' is not the proper business of higher education...
Finally, the Committee recommends that English A be changed into a noncredit half course. Other shakeups in English A are anticipated, but there are no definite plans...