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...present decade of fiscal woe began, most college leaders were wrapped in a hazy optimism. Enrollments were soaring, new buildings sprouted everywhere, and Ph.D.s were produced by the carload. As a result, the shocks of the '70s hit the schools like a scale8 earthquake. Says University of Chicago Sociologist Edward Shils: "We went mad over higher education. Giving every teen-ager an opportunity to go to college became a mark of American grandeur in the world. It was a silly delusion." Northwestern's Ellis puts it more simply: "We let ourselves get fat." Sound management principles were ignored...
...even visible. Maybe the little energy left over from the '60s got mostly spent, in secret, on assimilating and liquidating the traumas and griefs of that overlong epoch. If so, then perhaps the most memorable thing about the '70s has been simply that, as Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observed, "nothing disastrous is happening." Such a historical pause may not at the moment seem worth remembering - but it will as soon as disaster drops among us again...
There seems to be a consensus among Chicagoans that an expensive and bitterly resisted busing program, like the one imposed in Los Angeles this fall by a federal district judge, would not lead either to quality education or to integration. University of Chicago Sociologist James Coleman, whose antibusing views have stirred academic controversy, believes a voluntary plan is the only way lasting desegregation can be achieved in Chicago. Says he: "The apparent solution requires going back to the fundamental issue of equal education opportunity, regardless of race. Every child should have an opportunity to attend a school other than...
...woman eligible to receive suitors. Cynical observors often labeled the coming out season "the marriage market,", since a debutante's family hoped that by the end of the season and its whirl of parties, dances, and functions, the debutante would have become some scion's fiancee. A historian or sociologist might interpret this social mechanism to introduce a girl to the "Right People" as an affirmation of class superiority...
...most complicated problems of the new manners revolve around the almost endlessly subtle new variations on sexual roles. Says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There's a fair amount of ambiguity out there on the rules of behavior. Like dealing with blacks in the '60s, no one quite knows how to behave with women without giving offense." Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz tells an appalling story of taking out a woman who, when the check came and Dershowitz went to settle up, started griping: "Are you trying to dominate me?" Such women should spend the rest of their lives...