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...instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side of the plate they can find the knife...
...without practice. "Students can read the headlines, and they know it's a tough market," says Bob Thirsk, director of the University of Washington's placement center. Since competing in that market requires far more than the perfect resume, schools now offer workshops and seminars on job-search skills, including videotaped mock interviews. Students are flocking to the guidance sessions, but it's hard to find a job that isn't there. The University of Chicago Graduate Business School lets students bid for interviews through a computer, but according to William Mankivsky, 26, the screen has little to offer. Says...
Bewildered, I explained the intent of the cartoon: that it was, in part, a condemnation of the death penalty; that the "provocative" placement of the captions was a device to compare two sort of extremists, not to compare Black men and rats (did this really need explaining?); that it was an anti-racist cartoon, and that I had never imagined it would be interpreted otherwise. My friend in Arkansas was satisfied. He now had an explanation for the angry students organizing in protest...
Poor communities are looking for the courts to save them, Robin Hood-style, by shifting funds from richer ones. "There are school districts with swimming pools," growls Steve Honselman, a school-board vice president in Illinois' Casey-Westfield district. "Meanwhile, we don't have advanced-placement classes." He and his wife are part of a class action demanding that the state equalize school funding. "With three children in the schools," says Honselman, "we've tried everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come...
With housing authority more firmly centralized in Jewett's office, the institutional mechanism has come more in line with what he has wanted for several years. The immediate placement of transfer students weakens the element of housing choice even further. And the withering away of house vitality as a result of DeWolfe makes a proposal for change seem more attractive to masters and largely irrelevant to more students...