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Today's preferred areas of study are business, engineering, computers and health professions. At Northwestern University, English majors declined by 50% from 1964 to 1982. This year's class at the University of Texas at Austin has 1,993 business majors, compared with only 1,217 for all the liberal arts. Says Kent Johnson, an agricultural economics major at Texas A & M: "You have to look at what kind of return you're going to get for your investment. You can't be a music major. It won't pay the bills." Concludes Gary Margolis...
...more than 75% of all summa cum laude graduates decided on immediate graduate study in liberal arts and sciences. Now only a third plan on advanced academic degrees: they know there is very little opportunity to break into the overtenured field of teaching. Elisa Lewis, a recent graduate of Northwestern who majored in communications, is enrolling in a graduate program entirely devoted to advertising. Having had a preliminary taste of frustration as an undergraduate looking for a job, she is determined to make it. "Nothing," she says, "really prepares you for ten rejection letters after your first interviews...
...least as curriculum-based--and laud the Achievement tests because hard-working students can bring up their scores through intensive work. "The question of personal responsibility" is still open argues L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid. And Christopher Jencks, a testing expert and Northwestern University professor, in a recent article on the SAT Achievement question, contends that "a good college admissions system should encourage diligence rather than sloth...
Then Hassan conceived a brilliant scheme for changing the very nature of the war. He had long since realized that he did not really want most of the Western Sahara, a moonscape that only a nomad could love. What he wanted was the northwestern 20% of the territory, which contained the main towns of El Aaiun and Smara as well as the phosphate mines at Bu Craa. Hassan decided to protect his claim to this area, which he began to refer to as the "useful Sahara," by literally building a wall around...
With $400 million already spent in building a plant, Colony was going to be the most serious attempt ever made in the decades-old dream of wresting energy from northwestern Colorado's rugged Piceance Basin, which contains possibly 1.2 trillion bbl. of oil. The fuel is trapped in a form of limestone that geologists call marl, which is commonly known as shale. Colony's 8,800 acres alone are estimated to contain at least 500 million bbl. of oil, a month-long supply for the entire U.S. at the current levels of consumption. The project's facilities...