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...bleak employment outlook has created a jam at college placement offices, where new graduates vie with unemployed older ones for the few available jobs. "We're seeing a lot more of our graduates from a year ago coming into our office and competing with the current graduates," says Jean Hernandez, director of the University of Washington career center. At the same time, she adds, "students are more anxious than they were four years ago. In checking resumes, I see more students looking for work outside their majors and more who are doing jobs that don't require college degrees...
...center provides a variety of housing programs, including free and low-cost units, and a number of counseling and job placement opportunities...
...Lower East Side, does well in school and dreams of becoming a pediatrician. But perhaps half the AIDS orphans could wind up living in the streets or falling into an overloaded foster-care system. "We're seeing some 3,000 children in the Chicago area who will need placement very soon," says Cathy Blanford of the Lutheran Social Services of Illinois. "I expect the numbers will grow way beyond what anyone can imagine...
...proposal, submitted by the Task Force on the Potential of Students, would abolish "tracking," or the placement of students in all classes according to their academic ability. The task force aims to upgrade the difficulty of most classes to the "accelerated" level to ensure that all students are reaching their potential, according to Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, a chair of the committee...
...times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster of the night. "Juvenile Court" at 7:30 p.m. Shot in Memphis, the film records routine legal procedures and the interactions of offenders with the legal system, depicting cases that range from issues of child placement in foster homes to drug abuse to assault and armed robbery. Frederick Wiseman's camera penetrates beyond the surface of human behavior and commonplace order...