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...they dun alumni and other donors for funds, schools are also pinching pennies, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Bryn Mawr is phasing out five graduate departments, including Spanish and anthropology. Lehigh has eliminated its classics department, while Northwestern has cut its nursing and dental hygiene programs. Columbia, which earlier abandoned its linguistics and geography departments, announced in June that it would follow the University of Chicago's lead and shut down its library science school. Dartmouth has cut 55 staffers and eliminated seven junior varsity sports, including men's tennis, lacrosse, soccer and golf...
...tuition and fees has also hit a ceiling. Last spring Princeton scaled back a projected 6.9% hike in tuition, room and board to 6.7%, leaving a still daunting annual bill per student of $20,498. "We used to view tuition as a tithe paid by grateful parishioners," says Northwestern President Arnold Weber. "Now there clearly is price resistance...
Harvard beat Northwestern, 3-2 , and B.U., 1-0, earlier this year en route to its Boston Fourth championship. All four of the Crimson's losses this season have been to ranked teams: Providence (1-0), New Hampshire (2-0), Springfield and UConn...
...meantime, consumers and business leaders will have to adjust to a climate radically different from the 1980s, when the economy was reliable and forgiving. "We're in tough times in a very dicey world. There's going to be a lot of fallout," predicts Donald Jacobs, dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In large part, the U.S. and the world are paying for the excesses of the 1980s, in which companies, consumers and speculators lived far beyond their means. It may take as much global leadership and cooperation to avert a worldwide recession as it will...
...nightmares and disturbed sleep, in fatigue or listlessness, in poor grades or truancy, in continual arguing or fighting, in drinking or drug abuse, in reckless driving or sexual promiscuity, in stealing and mugging. A fairly typical history among disturbed kids, says Dr. L. David Zinn, co-director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Adolescent Program, includes difficulty in school at age eight or nine, withdrawal from friends and family and persistent misbehavior at 10 or 11 and skipping school by 15. But the most serious indication of despair -- and the most devastating -- is suicide attempts. According to a report issued...