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Burk says his unique selection system for boat placement this season has worked "extremely well." Those who will row in the first shell are chosen by a point system based on how many races each oarsman has won during work-outs...
This, however, is not the issue which the Student-Faculty Advisory Council has raised in its latest sessions. The Advisory Council has decided that while it is permissible for the Career office and Department placement officers to invite in most prospective employers, there may be some employers whose activities are so repugnant that they offend the moral sense of a substantial portion of the University, and that to allow them in might in effect be seen as University condonement of what they do. The most obvious examples of such organizations would be Dow Chemical Corporation and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...spring hits the campus and job recruitment steps up, has many another student. For years surveys have been indicating that the college generation is antibusiness. A vocal minority is -but many are not. "There's been a disproportionate amount of attention given to this," says Boston University Placement Services Director Victor R. Lindquist. Students who are not going into business are not necessarily anti. "I myself don't want to go into business," says Notre Dame Sociology Senior Peter Noonan. "But to do things like social work or teaching, you have to have a structure. Business in America...
Geographical Pattern. Anti-business sentiment on campus varies. It is strong in the Ivy League, weaker in the Big Ten and in the South. Much of it has been generated by the war in Viet Nam. Northwestern Placement Director Dr. Frank S. Endicott points out that "business has been identified with the war for supporting it, and some students say for causing it." Thus students react against such corporations as Dow Chemical, whose napalm epitomizes the war. Even here the reports have been disproportionate; Dow is doing well with its recruiting (TIME, April...
...bigger agencies have cut back on other services they formerly offered. Clients heretofore demanded, and got, not only advertising but market research, promotion, even product placement as well. Now agencies are no longer willing to do so much-at least not without fatter fees. "What's happened," says B.B.D. & O. Executive Vice President James Schule, "is that we have a better balance between services like market research, product development and testing and public relations v. pure advertising...