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THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
Are you ready for five years?
Fewer students graduate on time
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LEROY N. SANCHEZ, THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN, U. OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
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U. of California, Berkeley Martz operates equipment in Los Alamos lab.
September 1990 • Volume 4
Circulation • 1,425,000
OFF THE DEEP END — PAGE 20
NEWS FEATURES
OPINIONS
LIFE AND ART
DOLLARS AND SENSE
STUDENT BODY
Student
discovers
‘plasma’
technique
By Kathy Youse
■ Kansas State Collegian
Kansas State U.
By Kim Barker
■ The Daily Northwestern
Northwestern U.
for females. On the North Carolina cam-
pus, barely more than half — 51 percent
—of the students graduate in four years.
According to U.S. Dept, of Education
records, a 1980 national sample of more
than 1,000 entering college freshmen
indicated that 22 percent graduated
within 4.5 years; a similar survey con-
ducted in 1972 showed that 31 percent
graduated within the same time.
By Courtney
Thompson
■ The Daily Californian
SCOTT TROYANOS, STATE PRESS, ARIZONA STATE U.
Wrapped and elevated, Arizona State U. stu-
dent Meghan Myara reaches for a handful of
‘diplomas’ — fliers titled “Higher & Higher
Education (Strapped for Tuition)”—that she
tossed down to passers-by.
He ain’t heavy
A U. of Maryland, Baltimore County,
student tells a story of caring for his
AIDS-stricken brother, once a captain
of the wrestling team.
Mail tampering
Athletic officials at Duke U. admit-
ted that a special committee inter-
cepted and opened athletes’ mail for
five years before discontinuing the
practice.
Humanity never will succeed in
putting the radioactive genie back into
its bottle. But a U. of California,
Berkeley, graduate student may have
found a way to clean up some kinds of
radioactive waste created whenever plu-
tonium, the fuel used in nuclear power
reactors and weapons, is processed and
handled.
Joseph C. Martz, a 24-year-old gradu-
Separate campus, church
A lawsuit filed by the ACLU brought
a Christian cross down from atop a cam-
pus chapel at Arizona State U. But it
raised legal questions.
By Carolyn Huffman
■ State Press
Arizona State U.
Rent control
A 79-year-old Auburn U. alumnus
gives students the best deal in town:
a rent-free apartment in exchange for
company and chores.
The reasons
Institutional research departments at
Texas Tech U. andtheU. ofMissouriboth
have correlated students’ longer stays in
college and what they call the “lazy” stu-
dent attitude: a reluctance to enter the
Watch your back!
Armed with shaving cream and Kool-
Aid, practical jokers are still alive and
well at American colleges — especially
at James Madison U.
working world, legitimized by extending
the college career.
However, Mike Lynch, a member of
Kansas State U.’s institutional advance-
ment staff, doesn’t think laziness is the
root of the problem. Instead, he points to
the fact that students have more distrac-
tions than ever before.
The most commonly cited reason for
this “conservative approach” toward col-
lege is the need for students to work
while still in school. And it applies to both
traditional students and non-tradition-
als.
Tom Nauman, who works at the insti-
tutional research office at the U. of
Colorado, has noticed older students
entering college with more responsibili-
ties, including families and jobs. They
See LONGER, Page 2
A bill already passed by the U.S.
House of Representatives and expected
to pass the Senate this fall may require
universities across the nation to publish
campus crime statistics and other previ-
ously “protected” information.
The bill also requires colleges to dis-
close the financial reports of its athletic
departments and the graduation rates
of athletes, as well as all other students.
See STATS, Page 4
ate student in chemical engineering, has
used a technique called plasma process-
ing to extract plutonium from low-level
radioactive waste.
In the plasma-processing technique,
plasma is created by sending electrical
energy into a reactive gas.
The plasma then produces atomic flu-
orine atoms, which combine with pluto-
See PLUTONIUM, Page 2
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Universities across the nation are see-
ing a change in student attitudes con-
cerning course loads and their commit-
ment toward graduating in four years.
The U. of Maryland, College Park, and
North Carolina State U. are examples of
schools struck hard by what’s often
tagged the “fifth-year senior syndrome.”
Far less than half the first-time fresh-
men at the Maryland campus graduate
in four years; the probability of complet-
ing a bachelor’s degree there in four
years is 19 percent for males, 35 percent
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at Arizona ——
State U. inspired yet another stu-
dent protest. But this time the
demonstrators took to the trees.
Late last spring, following an
announcement by ASU officials
that tuition there would rise, a
group of eight art students saw an
opportunity to make a statement
that was hard not to hear, er, see.
The students of Professor Jim
White’s three-dimensional design
class cellophaned themselves to
palm trees along the school’s
University Drive to “illustrate the
economic plight of students.”
And to make sure they wouldn’t
go unnoticed, the protester-
artists elevated themselves about
four feet into the air on stacks of
textbooks.
National averages for this
year’s fee increases haven’t been
released, but several surveys of
major public schools indicate that
students are paying 8.5 percent
more to go to school this year than
last year.
Meanwhile, the general infla-
tion rate is about 5 percent.
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