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...search is easiest for minority and women students. Sears, Roebuck, for example, interviewed only minority students in one trip to the University of Washington. "If I had 100 black engineers, male or female but preferably female, I know I could place them with five phone calls," says Northwestern's Lindquist...
...fewer jobs available for college graduates this year than there were a year ago. Job openings for engineering graduates with bachelor's degrees are down 20%; openings in the auto, building and mechanical equipment industries have plummeted 60%. Says Victor Lindquist, director of the placement office at Northwestern University: "This job market is the most difficult one that we've had in almost 20 years...
...Pilbara district of northwestern Australia's outback is a sort of hell. There is barely enough vegetation on the stony hills and sere plains to support the area's population of wild donkeys, kangaroos and emus; only rock pythons, death adders and hoards of stinging insects seem to have adapted comfortably to the climatic extremes: winds that reach velocities of 140 m.p.h., dust storms that swirl out of the nearby Great Sandy Desert, noonday temperatures as high as 180° F. For man, it is as hostile a place as any in the world...
Doctoral Students. The exchange was set up by Detzel, 29, and Bob Lewis, 34, former doctoral students at Northwestern University, who wanted to find new ways for talented people to teach outside a traditional classroom. Still dependent on grants, they are moving toward financial independence by selling memberships for $15 a year...
Word of the exchange's success has spread; calls have come in from more than 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada asking for information about learning-exchange systems. Meanwhile, Detzel and Lewis have earned praise from the educational establishment. Says B.J. Chandler, dean of Northwestern's school of education: "The formal educational system is groaning under the load put on it. We've got to lend our support to this kind of alternative...