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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Fall 10-28-1988 Volume 24 - Issue 9 - Friday, October 28, 1988 Rose Thorn Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn Recommended Citation Rose Thorn Staff, "Volume 24 - Issue 9 - Friday, October 28, 1988" (1988). The Rose Thorn Archive. 742. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/742 THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS ROSE-HULMAN REPOSITORY IS TO BE USED FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH AND MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. SOME CONTENT IN THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT. 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Championships! -.1••••••1, News Briefs Rose Drama Club to perform 'An Enemy of the People' by Steve Reid still finds some revelations of The Rose Drama Club pro- life today. duction, "An Enemy of the People," by Heinrik Ibsen, op- The revival of the past will ens tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the be continued through the win- Moench Hall auditorium. ter term with a possible Winter Other performances will be Review. This review will be held on Saturday and again on attempting to bring back the November 4th and 5th, at the Alumni of the Rose Drama same time. Tickets will be on Club for a dinner of fun and ex- sale at the door for $3.50. cerpts from the productions of This year is the Rose Drama the past 25 years. The next Club's 25th Anniversary "Sil- item on their "Silver Jubilee" ver Jubilee." Their "Silver Ju- schedule will be a trip to Lon- bilee" season opens with the don over the Spring Break. The performance of "An Enemy of season will be concluded with the People." This play was the the musical "South Pacific." Drama Club's first production Everyone is welcome to join 25 years ago. This timeless the club and participate in the drama, written 140 years ago, upcoming events. GM Sunraycer to visit Rose Campus The world's fastest solar powered car, the GM Sunraycer, will be at Rose on Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Shook Memorial Fieldhouse. This engineering marvel won the 1,950-mile World Solar Challenge in Australia in November, 1987, and led the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1, 1988, as "Pace Car of the Future." The car SMWC presents seminar is on a national tour this year. On hand to talk about the Sunraycer will be GM Sunraycer on Soviet policy team spokespersons Richard and Sandra McKenney. The Sunraycer is pictured above. Molly K. Brennan, Chevrolet assistant product engineering manager, and one of the six Sunraycer Is there an "open voice" relations. The lecture will be drivers in the Australian race, is shown in the insert. policy, a new freedom of ex- followed by a question and an- pression, in the Soviet Union? swer period. What impact glasnost does The second session is a Engineering enrollment continues have on foreign and domestic luncheon, and panel discussion to drop affairs, Soviet on the people on the topic "Religious Free- on by Jeff Valput and the Church. dom in the Soviet Union" from engineering enrollment in 1988 exceptions. Particularly sharp These questions The total number of full-time and sharper will be an- noon to 2 p.m. in the LeFer even drops as we decreases ocurred in the areas of swered undergraduate engineering stu- move during "Glasnost, Ballroom. A panel of religious into the 1990s. mining and petroleum engineer- dents dropped by 3.4 percent in During same Myth or Reality," a seminar leaders and theologians from this time period, ing. As engineering enrollments the Fall of 1987, compared to the on Soviet policy sponsored by the Terre Haute area graduate enrollments have been in general decreased, the number will par- previous year. The decline the office of continuing educa- ticipate. in re- steadily increasing. During the of second- and third- year stu- tion at Saint-Mary-of-the corded freshman enrollments next decade, 40-50 percent of un- dents without declared majors in- Woods College on Tuesday, The final session, set from 3 was slightly larger, 3.8 percent. dergraduate engineering stu- creased. November 15. to 4:15 p.m. in the Hayes Au- dents are expected to continue Special guest Jack Smith ditorium of the Science Build- Enrollments in undergraduate their education and seek graduate On the whole, the share of un- will discuss glasnost and its ing, examines "The Promises engineering programs in the U.S. degrees. The trend will mean that dergraduate engineering enroll- effects in three sessions. Smith and Perils of SDI." Registra- have been dropping since they it will be more common to enter ments held by women remained is vice-president of the Stanley tion deadline for the seminar is reached all-time high levels in the workplace with a master's de- stable in 1987, despite fears that Foundation, an organization Friday, Nov. 4. Morning and 1983. Explanations for the decline gree instead of a bachelor's. declines in their interest in the which encourages citizen in- afternoon sessions are com- involve two independent factors, Most undergraduate engineer- profession might be especially se- volvement in United States for- plimentary, but there will be a the size of the pool of potential col- ing disciplines followed the down- vere. It seems likely that women eign policy decision making. $7.50 luncheon charge for the lege students, and levels of inter- ward trend, although there were a will continue to account for about The first session scheduled the "Religious Freedom in the est in engineering as a career. If few exceptions. Aerospace, one out of every seven un- from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the Soviet Union" discussion. interest continues to decline, we architectural, marine, and gener- dergraduate engineering stu- Hayes Auditiorium of the Sci- For more information, con- should observe further drops in al engineering were among these dents in the near future. ence Building, focuses on re- tact the Saint Mary-of-the cent foreign policy changes Woods College office of con- and the future of U.S./Soviet tinuing education at 535-5148. Poll finds youth choose colleges like whiskey (CPS)—In what some call the schools continue to attract so Fifty-four percent of high "Chivas Regal Syndrome," a lot many applicants even as cheaper, school juniors and seniors sur- of young people apparently academically comparable cam- veyed, however, expected to Colleges short on computer, believe that the more they pay puses can't attract enough. graduate from college anyway. for college, the better the college Few schools would admit to The poll was commissioned by math, business professors must be. raising their prices solely to lure the Council for Advancement and In a survey trying to find out snobs. In 1982, George Washing- Support of Education and con- (CPS) — There aren't National Center for Education how students choose which col- ton University did adopt a consul- ducted Aug. 24 through Sept. 7 by enough professors around to Information claimed long- lege to attend — it also was to tant's advice to raise its prices in the Gallup Organization. It was teach all the computer science, standing predictions that the mark National Higher Education order to draw applications from based on telephone interviews of business and math courses stu- nation's colleges would have Week,Oct. 9-15 — 38 percent of the people who ordinarily would go persons aged 13-21. dents nationwide want to take, as many as 100,000 vacant students polled agreed that "the only to more expensive schools, Only 20 percent said a campus's the American Council on teaching positions by 1990 were higher the tuition costs of a col- but provoked a spate of bad pub- social life or athletic reputation Education said Oct. 12 not coming true, released a lege, the better the quality of licity in the process. were "extremely important" to "Faculty shortages are study showing that 1,000 1988 education a student will receive." The Education Week Survey them. serious and likely to continue," education grads were still College officials call the belief was not without inconsistencies. Seventy percent also said public said Elaine El-Khawas of the looking for jobs. the "Chivas Regal Syndrome" Asked why more young people schools offer as good an education Washington, D.C.-based ACE, "There is no teaching short- after the premium Scotch whisky, didn't go to college, 48 percent of as private schools, and 60 percent a trade group that represents age," the NCEI's Emily and have used it to explain why the students said it was because felt two-year institutions are on a college presidents from Feistritzer concluded.