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...know of no complaints about our decision to cut down the trees. Originally, there was some controversy over placement of the new sycamores, but we deferred to the wishes of Professor (Charles W.) Eliot (professor emeritus of the Graduate School of Design) on that score," Sears said...
Whites' Flight. The Richmond case runs back through more than a decade of controversy. During the late 1950s, while some Virginia schools were closing in protest against Federal orders to integrate, the State Pupil Placement Board kept integration within narrow limits. In Richmond, where the school board chairman was Lewis F. Powell Jr., now a Supreme Court Justice, the first blacks entered white schools in 1960, but only two of them. The following year, the NAACP filed a suit on behalf of eleven black youngsters aged eleven to 14, which led to court-ordered busing across the city. Even...
...many colleges, the picture is even bleaker. Michigan State University, which has as many as 2,300 recruiters swarming through the campus in a good year, has seen only 1,600 in 1971-72. At Dartmouth, only 54 companies have signed up for visits, down from 91 last year. Placement officers at U.C.L.A. report a 20% drop in recruiting from...
Some executives are worried that the present sluggishness in campus hiring may mean trouble for their companies in the future. "We will find out ten years from now that there is no one to fill the managerial ranks," predicts Monroe Sadler, Du Font's development chief. Dennis Ryan, placement director of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, adds: "The recruitment people know that this will create an air bubble in the pipeline five or ten years from now. But the personnel manager cannot get that message upstairs...
Students are responding to the harsh new world of job scarcity in several ways. Most placement officers predict that a larger proportion of bachelor's degree recipients this June will elect to go on to graduate school. The recruiting drought has also produced a new institution in post-graduation planning: the breather year, during which graduates take an extended break before finding a job or continuing their education. Some temporary dropouts travel abroad, others take undemanding jobs as cab drivers, ski patrollers or bartenders to help unwind from the pressures of college life. At Dartmouth, 18% of graduating seniors...