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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 (Continued on page 20) 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.