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Although the 21 U.S. and three Canadian schools had 2,112 first-year positions available last fall, up 8% from 1975, the ranks of would-be vets are growing even faster. While medical schools take about one in three applicants, the acceptance ratio at vet schools is about one in seven-and in many cases even lower. Alabama's Tuskegee Institute is currently screening 1,100 applicants for 50 openings in its veterinary program. Cornell has some 850 applicants for the 80 first-year places available in its vet school. At Washington State University's College of Veterinary...
...some extent, the vet-school crush is a reflection of the back-to-basics, return-to-the-land ethos among the post-Viet Nam young. Says Craig Williams, 29, a senior at Cornell: "I thought it was the type of profession where there would be a lot of freedom-freedom about where 1 could live and what I could do." Adds Ronald Schafer, a junior at the University of Illinois: "Most people are motivated by respect for the animal kingdom...
Poor Cousins. Young vets have little trouble finding jobs at good pay: the average starting salary for University of Illinois vet graduates in 1975 was $17,-580 for work in private industry, in such fields as pharmaceutical research. After they complete the required four years' training, the overwhelming majority of new vets go into private practice, many specializing in treating "companion animals," the nation's 60 million dogs and cats. A busy vet tending pets in Manhattan or Beverly Hills can earn $50,000 a year or more. Increasingly, however, vets are opting for what is known...
Despite the surging interest in the field, vet schools are uneven in quality. They are "poor cousins," as Washington State's Bustad bluntly concedes, with aging, hand-me-down facilities, antique equipment and low budgets. Few state legislatures, which provide most of the vet schools' funds, seem willing or able to increase their aid. Yet the cost of educating a veterinarian-now $48,000 or more for the basic four-year program -has doubled in the past decade...
...first time in seven years as an alternate delegate for Americans living abroad, only to be slapped with extradition papers from his Oklahoma draft board. He finally had his name placed into nomination for vice president, after refusals by Ramsey Clark and Milton Shapp, by paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron president, after refusals by Ramsey Clark and Milton Shapp, by paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic. At the end of the week, Efaw found that the charges against him had been dismissed because his draft board had failed to keep him properly informed on his status as a conscientious objector...