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August 31, 1984/The Maroon Tiger/Page 3
On Campus Capsule
♦FRESHMEN COME TO
COLLEGE expecting to become
doctors, lawyers, and writers, but
many shift their interest to
business and teaching by the
time they’re seniors. That’s one
indication of a Stanford U. study
which surveyed one in five
graduating seniors. Among 1981
graduates, the proportion seek
ing business careers grew from
17% to 29%; those planning to
teach jumped to 10% from 5.7%
♦ORGANIZED RELIGION is in
creasingly less popular with
college students, says a U. of
Maryland study. Students attend
religious services less often today
than 10 years ago, but have more
conservative moral values:
they’re less likely to support
abortion, premarital sex or the
buying of term papers.
♦REAGAN ADMINISTRATION
FIGURES ON AID to historically
black institutions are distorted,
says the director of the Office for
Advancement of Public Black
Colleges (OAPEC). A recent
report listing $606 million in aid
to 107 black institutions in 1973
includes a $142.8 million annual
Congressional appropriation to
Howard U., and grants from the
National Endowments for the
Arts and for the Humanities. That
renders meaningless any com
parison with funding of non
black schools, and with past
funding levels of historically
black schools, says OAPBC
Director Joyce Payne.
♦THE NEW DRINKING AGE
LAW is receiving a decidedly
mixed reaction on campuses
nationwide. Although ad
ministrators have long been
involved in efforts to reduce
irresponsible student drinking,
many believe the new national
drinking age of 21 will simply
encourage more off-campus
drinking and partying, rather
than eliminating alcohol con
sumption among 18, 19 and 20-
year - olds. Also looming in the
fall are potential discipline
problems when administrators
try to enforce the new laws in
residence halls and at campus
wide functions.
♦TODAY’5 ARMY IS LEAR
NING ABOUT today’s litigious
society at the U. of Minnesota,
where a former cadet is suing for
damages, alleging emotional
distress, racial discrimination
and sexual harassment. Flowrean
Orange is seeking $200,000 in
compensatory damages from
UM and $500,000 in punitive
damages from Sgt. Dicky Coons,
who she says abused her
physically and verbally. Coons
was relieved for cause after
Orange filed a complaint against
hirh in January, but she was also
soon “disenrolled” from ROTC.
♦A TELEPHONE MARKETING
FIRM found a new market for its
services during Michigan State
U.’s spring exam period. Its
operators agreed, for a fee of $1,
to give students wake-up calls
prior to their exams. Employees
of Phone Bank Systems, which
usually does political fund
raising of telephone sales, in
clude four MSU alumni — each
of whom remember sleeping
through at least one exam.
♦INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
filed a class action suit against the
U. of Toronto, claiming the
school failed to properly inform
students of tuition increases
during 1982-1984. The 560
students who would be affected
are seeking repayment of $1,300
in back tuition.
♦MARIJUANA IS LOSING ITS
APPEAL on campus, according to
a survey in USA Today. Eighty-six
percent of students questioned
said they’d never tried mari
juana. But smoking pot is still
popular among those who used
marijuana as teenagers, says a
report by Columbia U.
researchers in the U.S. Journal of
Drug & Alcohol Dependence.
♦A BLIND MAN who staged a
sit-in to protest the U. of
Alabama’s vendor policy was
physically removed from a cam
pus building by university police.
The man said UA administration
wasn’t awarding enough of its
contracts to blind vendors.
JOURNALISM SCHOOLS
must begin teaching students
about the social impact of com
munications technology, says a
two-year study by the U. of
Oregon’s School of Journalism.
It also advocated placing more
emphasis on continuing educa
tion, especially for, mid-career
professionals. The study, which
involved major media
organizations, and leaders of
education and industry, was
conducted to help UO make
curriculum changes in its school,
but will be shared with other
schools through the Association
of Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication.
♦INCREASING STUDENT FEES
does not necessarily cause finan
cial hardship and reduce enroll
ment, the California Court of
Appeal ruled recently. It re
jected contentions made in a suit
filed by the California State
Student Association in response
to a $230 fee increase a year ago.
♦CONTRARY TO SOME
PREVIOUS REPORTS, break
dancing can be dangerous.
Chicago doctors report a
number of recent injuries
resulting from the new dance
craze, including one broken
neck which left its victim a
quadraplegic. Medical
authorities originally speculated
that break-dancing’s com
plicated moves prevented
novices from moving fast
enough to cause serious injury.
♦COLLEGES AND UNIVER
SITIES shouldn’t be ashamed of
using their resources to give
financial aid on a merit basis, says
Charles Finn, a Vanderbilt U.
professor. Speaking at a College
Board seminar, Finn said the
move to merit aid is firmly
entrenched, and isn’t viewed
negatively by the public. As
colleges compete for the shrink
ing pool of students, more will
need to use financial aid as bait,
said Finn.
♦STUDENT GOVERNMENTS
IN TEXAS banded together in an
unsuccessful attempt to fight the
federal push to set a national
drinking age of 21. The student
body presidents of 20 state
colleges and universities voted
to spend $2,000 to send a
representative to Washington,
D.C., equipped with handbooks
outlining the students’ position.
The printed material was dis
tributed to press members,
college interns in Congressional
offices, and members of Con
gress.
♦INFACT, THE GROUP
WHICH LED the boycott against
the Nestle Co. that ended last
winter, is now targetting three
other U.S. firms. INFACT claims
Bristol Myers, Abbott
Laboratories and American
Home Products are marketing
baby formula in Third World
countries in ways which violate
United Nations/ World Health
Organization guidelines.
♦THE INCIDENCE OF HERPES
CASES ON CAMPUS has sub
sided in recent years, said par
ticipants in the American
College Health Association con
ference. They report fewer
students seeking treatment of
the sexually transmitted disease
at campus health centers.
♦GRADUATING SENIORS ARE
PREPARED TO WORK long
hours, but won’t sacrifice ethics
or personal happiness to be
successful in a career, according
to a survey by the CPC Founda
tion, the research arm of the
College Placement Council. Its
survey of nearly 2,000 students at
50 schools found most think the
ability to work with people, a
formal education, and job per
formance are the keys to success.
♦THE U. OF MASSACHUSETTS
DORMITORY ARSON of last fall
produced a one-year probation
for a former janitor and a law suit
for the university. The janitor was
charged with writing graffiti on
the walls during the series of
small arson fires. Before they
were traced to the janitor, the
notes helped create a crisis
atmosphere in the residence
hall, and were used to assemble a
psychological profile of the
arsonist. That profile was used in
charging a U. Mass, student with
some of the arson fires. The
student was ultimately cleared,
and has since filed suit against
the university, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the
campus police and state police.
She seeks $13 million in
damages, saying the false arrest
impeded her graduation in May,
and cost her her dorm room and
her job as a resident advisor.
♦STUDENTS AT COLLEGES IN
THE MEMPHIS AREA are cir
culating petitions which seek
discount fares on the city bus
system. The college students
want the same 50-cent fare
which elementary and high
school students pay or a monthly
bus fee. They currently pay the
full 85-cent fare.
♦A TYPICAL COLLEGE
CAREER may soon last three
years, not four, predicts Richard
Cyert, president of Carnegie -
Mellon U. He believes computer
- based training will enable
students to learn faster by giving
them access to more data, and by
helping make abstract problems
more concrete.
♦THE OREGON STUDENT
LOBBY is petitioning the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education
for a change in the rules gover
ning the way budgets drawn
from student fees are approved.
Students want university
presidents to be required to
meet with student government
leaders to discuss recommended
fees and fee changes.
♦A PETITION TO CHANGE
THE FORMAT OF DIPLOMAS at
Radford U. collected 2,000
signatures in two months of
quiet campaigning. Students
Dave Friello and Erv Kuhnke say
Radford’s diplomas should
acknowledge what the student
majored in, as well as announce
the degree earned.
♦AN EMOTIONAL PROTEST
erupted at the U. of
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Do Inc.—Another Black Business?
Oldham (left) and Dilworth
An Atlanta-hased beverage
company, DO Inc., recently
committed a portion of its pre
tax income on sales of its Big Man
Malt Liquor to five civil rights
organizations. Company Presi
dent Leon Oldham said the
gesture was a way for he and his
partner Curtis Dilworth to
“repay the debt” to the groups
that helped them.
The organizations are the
United Negro College Fund,
NAACP, Southern Christian
Leadership Conference,
National Urban League and the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for
Nonviolent Social Change.
The idea caught on. Tower
Package Stores, Inc. announced
at a news conference at city hall it
will donate to Atlanta lOcents for
every case of Big Man sold
through their five metro stores.
The money will be forwarded to
the city’s Task Force for the
Homeless of Atlanta.
“When Mr. Oldham an
nounced on television several
months ago that they were
coming out with the Big Man
Malt and contributing to the
causes which he had a personal
interest in, it came to my mind
that possibly we at Tower
Package Stores would like to
contribute something,” says
Irwin Greenbaum, founder and
president of Tower and a
beverage industry executive and
business owner since 1938.
Greenbaum, who was born
and reared in Atlanta and has
never lived outside its boun
daries, says the only stipulation
he gave to the city was that the
money had to benefit a program
which helped inner-city
residents.
The Task Force on the
Homeless provides temporary
shelter, and food for an es
timated 5,000 homeless persons
living in Atlanta.
Tower sells about 100,000 cases
of beer in Atlanta each year, says
Greenbaum. Oldham aimed to
make Big Man about 10 percent
of that figure, but is now a bit
more optimistic that the percen
tage could reach about 30 per
cent. Sales at that level could net
the Task Force as much as $6,000
per year, says Oldham.
Big Man Malt Liquor is a
creation of DO Inc., believed to
be the first wholly minority
owned beer company in the
United States. The company
handles all phases of the opera
tion except the brewing process,
which is contracted to Eastern
Brewery of New Jersey.