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Between Sept. 1 and March 1, altogether 9,595 students were interviewed on campuses, 900 more than the year before. College placement officers suggest that publicity generated by demonstrations may have actually boosted interest in the company. Many students obviously went to see the Dow representatives simply to defy the demonstrators with whom they disagreed, or to support Dow's right to make its pitch like any other corporation. "Perhaps the notoriety we acquired helped in some cases," says Dow's chief recruiter Dr. Ramon F. Rolf. But he still worries about missing "the real bright, sensitive individual...
...blueprints for any new aircraft, but lately Boeing President William M. Allen has been telling airline customers that engineering "miscalculations" were serious enough to send the SST "back to the drawing boards." They involve questions of aerodynamics, air flow into the plane's four engines, attitude control, engine placement and a considerable underestimate of necessary fuel space...
...letter--published in Wednesday's Harbus News--claims that the signers are "particularly interested in the policy of the placement office with regard to publicizing through their facilities discriminatory job offers...
...Business School placement office would not comment on the letter, but an official there said that a reply was forth-coming...
Shaw admitted that Dow had considered recruiting off-campus at Harvard after last October's demonstration. But the company decided they had to "support the placement office, a legitimate function within the university," by continued on-campus recruiting...