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...Kirov Ballet-floats to her forest glade in Swan Lake, the ragged corps resembles a Long Island duck farm rather than anything 19th century Choreographer Marius Petipa had in mind. Equally disheveled is a new ABT production this season of a Kirov specialty, Paquita; at times, the arm placement of the corps looks like a demonstration of semaphore signals...
...employment. But they may have to work harder at selling themselves to an employer, the job may not be the one they had hoped for, and the salary may be lower than they like. They will certainly not, as in the past, have jobs conferred upon them. "Normally a placement director is wined and dined by firms wanting to ingratiate themselves with the institution," says Cornell Placement Chief John Munschauer. "This year no one even bought me lunch." Corporate recruiters still visit campuses, but not so frequently or enthusiastically as before. At Princeton, there were 85 recruiters this spring compared...
...jobs. Or they may join communes, which are a practical way for unsettled idealists to live on next to nothing. Others, while still in college, will try to line up what are usually called "alternative" jobs, meaning jobs that suit the new alternative lifestyle. In some college placement offices there are folders containing information about how the kids can get into dome building, blacksmithing, pipefitting or free-school teaching. At Oberlin, there is even an "alternatives" office, staffed by ten volunteer students, and several other colleges and universities have appointed "alternative vocations placement counselors." A graduate divinity student named Robert...
...draft also seem reluctant to commit themselves to a vocation. Of the 1,139 students in Harvard's class of '67, 90 declared themselves "undecided" about their career plans; of this year's 1,100 or so, there are at least 250 in that limbo. Last year the placement director at Beloit wrote to every junior, suggesting that they chat with him about how to prepare a resume to get a job. "I didn't get one response," he says. "Vocational planning to them is anathema, an Establishment sort of thing to do. These kids just don't want...
Alternative careers also include (mostly low paying) with a basic commitment to service or to social change. At Duke, alternatives placement is primarily involved in informing students about such organizations as VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Teacher Corps (which still attract about 15,000 people of all ages annually and are being melded into one organization called the Action Corps), and the Office of Economic Opportunity. At Michigan State University, which runs the nation's biggest college placement operation, all 1,200 copies of each issue of its Vocations for Social Change newsletter are eagerly snapped up. It advertises...