or The Observer 8 ------------ Saint Maryls College The ObserverNOTRE DAME » INDIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 23 WEDNESDAY . SEPTEMBER 25, 1991 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S US News & World Report ranks Saint Mary’s 3rd By AMY GREENWOOD bachelor’s degrees in two or rank the schools in their re­ utation, and 20th in student se­ falling from the number 4 spot Saint Mary's News Editor more professions and combine spective categories. lectivity. last year. Financial resources the professional programs The report analyzed five key For the second year in a row, was determined by the 1990 U.S. News and W orld Report found at large state universities attributes to determine each SMC ranked first in student dollar total of its educational ranked Saint Mary's College with intimate settings of small school's rank: reputation, se­ satisfaction. Student satisfac­ and general expenditures, di­ third among midwestern re­ liberal arts colleges. The lectivity, faculty resources, and tion was determined by the vided by its total enrollment. gional colleges and universities schools have been divided by student satisfaction. Each at­ school's ability to graduate the Financial Aid proves to be a in its annual survey of region: North, South, Midwest, tribute carries a different students it admits as freshmen. major consideration in this cat­ “America's Best Colleges.” and West. Many of the 558 weight. Reputation, selectivity, Ninety percent of SMC freshmen egory. According to Mary Nuc- schools in this category offer and faculty resources each con­ continued on as sophomores ciarone, director of Financial For the fifth consecutive year, graduate degrees. tributed twenty-five percent to last year. Aid, forty-four percent of SMC SMC has been included in the the overall score. Financial re­ “The terrific faculty and nu­ students received need-based survey’s top 15 of the Midwest The survey, published in the sources counted for twenty merous support services ac­ aid for the 1991-92 school year. regional category. The college Sept. 30 issue, includes 1,373 percent and student satisfaction count for SMC’s high retention A combination of things make moved up one spot this year four-year schools. Statistics was worth five percent. rate," said Public Information up determinations for selectiv­ from last year's fourth place gathered by the colleges and Officer, Brett McLaughlin. ity. Rejection rates, average position. the results of U.S. News’ survey With an overall score of 92.9, “Saint Mary’s is a caring com­ Scholastic Aptitude and Ameri­ The m agazine groups SMC of academic reputations among SMC ranked first in student munity that reaches out to it’s can College Testing Assessment among regional colleges and 2,425 responding college presi­ satisfaction, seventh in financial students." Tests, and high school class universities that generally dents, deans and admissions resources, 12th in faculty SMC ranked seventh in the fi­ standings are included in the award more than half their directors were combined to support, 17th in academic rep­ nancial resources category see RANK/ page 4 Finances keep ND from top 25 By MONICA YANT a row that Notre Dame is not in appears to be hindering its News Editor the top 25. ranking, Rooney said. A school’s “I was not surprised,” said financial resources is For the second year in a row Kevin Rooney, director of Un­ determined by dividing the total money seems to have kept dergraduate Admissions. value of educational and gen­ Notre Dame off U.S. News and “We re not likely to go back on eral expenditures by its total W orld R eport’s lis t o f Top 25 (the top 25) until they change full-time enrollment. national universities. the criteria.” Notre Dame spends just The University’s yearly The magazine rated 1?373 $18,852 per student, compared spending per student — over schools in 14 categories. College to $50,677 by Harvard and $18,000 — places it behind presidents are polled and $106,611 by California Institute other schools on the list. The determine schools’ academic o f Technology. discrepancy is enough to limit reputation based on four cate­ “In essence, they’re saying, ND to the first quartile, the best gories: selectivity, faculty re­ the more you spend, the better of four subgroupings for sources, financial resources and you are, ” said Moore. national universities not in­ student satisfaction. The focus on spending is cluded in the magazine’s Sept. The University boasts a 37 ironic, he said, because in the 30 issue top 25. percent acceptance rate with an same issue the magazine claims Harvard tops the magazine’s average SAT of 1260. Eighty to be concerned with the rising rankings again this year, fol­ percent of the incoming fresh­ cost of education and “The Age lowed by Yale, Stanford, men graduated in the top 10 of Scarcity" that is plaguing Princeton and California Insti­ percent of their high school colleges across the country. tute of Technology. MIT, Duke, class, according to the profile. Notre Dame’s success in Dartmouth, Columbia and the Notre Dame’s freshman re­ admitting and graduating tal­ University of Chicago round out tention and graduation rates ented students for less money the top ten. are also among the best in the should boost, not hinder, Its Notre Dame’s ranking has country, at 97 and 91 percent ranking, according to Moore. varied during the five years the respectively. “ It seems to me w e’re doing a magazine has compiled the top “Clearly, our student body is better job, one of the best jobs 25 list. The University was not one of the best in the nation,” in the country," he said. Havin a ball! TheObserver/R. Garr Schwartz included the first year, but said Denny Moore, director of That a school with the 15th ranked 18th in 1988. In 1989 Public Relations. highest endowment in the coun­ These Notre Dame athletes enjoy a competitive game of volleyball by Notre Dame fell to 23rd. Notre Dame’s poor ranking in try would have such a poor Stepan Center yesterday. This marks the second year in the financial resources category see MONEY/ page 4 Unites Nations inspectors still held in Iraq UNITED NATIONS (AP) — is the international community’s demand of the Security Council, Iraq on Tuesday detained 44 determination that these said British Ambassador David U N. inspectors for the second resolutions be fully complied Hannay said. day in a row and accused them w ith," Bush said in New York. But in a telephone interview of being CIA spies as the crisis Underlining U.S. displeasure, from Baghdad at about 8 p.m. over Iraqi compliance with U.N. a senior Pentagon official said EDT, chief inspector David Kay cease-fire terms appeared to be 100 Patriot missiles and 1,300 said the Iraqi still surrounded coming to a climax. troops would be sent to Saudi the inspection team. Arabia to ease that nation’s Troops surrounded the in­ concern over rising tensions in Iraq sent another letter to spectors, who parked their cars the Persian Gulf region. Merimee on Tuesday complain­ in a circle to protect themselves And the 15-member Security ing about the behavior of the and the videotapes of docu­ Council unanimously adopted a inspectors, in particular Kay, ments said to show details of statement insisting that Iraq who is an American. Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons release the inspectors and allow At a news conference in program, its foreign suppliers them to take whatever doc­ Baghdad, Iraqi Deputy Prime and top Iraqi directors. uments they feel they need. Minister Tariq Aziz accused the The U.N. Security Council late team leader of being “an officer Tuesday demanded that Iraq Council statements do not of the U.S. intellience service,” immediately release the carry the weight of resolutions, the official Iraqi News Agency weapons inspectors, but in a w hich may be enforced under reported. television interview from Bagh­ international law. The council Kay called the charge dad, the chief inspector said was expected to wait for Iraq’s “completely ridiculous and un­ there was no sign Iraq was lift­ response before deciding true.” Pentagon spokesman ing the siege. whether to accept U.S. offers of Pete Williams called it a President Bush condemned helicopter gunships and war­ “ludicrous allegation.” Baghdad’s “ unacceptable be­ planes to accompany U.N. in­ As for Iraqi charges that they havior," and warned Saddam spection teams in Iraq. had had “ trouble” from his Hussein not to "miscalculate ” Late Tuesday, Iraq sent a let­ team, Kay said, that if his team as he did during the Gulf War. ter to French Ambassador had a problem “ it is because we The loser wins! The Observer/A. Garr Schwartz Jean-Bernard Merimee in are very close to finding out the “We don’t want to see any w hich it agreed to allow U.N. true scope and nature of the P.W. residents, led by Trish Gray, participate in the slowest bike race more anguish inflicted on the inspectors to use helicopters for Iraqi program.” contest last night. This event is one of many during the dorm's "Queen week," as the women prepare for their first SYR of the year. Iraqi people, but overriding that their inspections, a major see IRAQ/ page 4 page 2 The Observer Wednesday, September 25,1991 INSIDE COLUMN FORECAST: Lines showUioh temperatures. Mostly cloudy and cool today with a • Be careful and cljance of showers. Highs in the lower 60’s. Cool Thurs­ protect youself day with highs in the lower 50’s.