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...The burning issues of the coming dec- ade are not tailor-made for students either...

...Under these circum- stances students might be forced to seek political solutions for their personal trou- bles...

...Cultural patterns of long stand- ing do not dissolve overnight...

...Another source for a left renaissance on campuses, a resurgence of idealism based on nostalgia for the "glorious six- ties" is very much a longshot...

...Volunteer forces invariably free affluent youth from the risks of warfare...

...Programs can also be developed in a variety of fields with other graduate and professional schools at Yale, such as law, medicine, drama, public health...

...This could disproportionately lead them into the social sciences, with the distinct pos- sibility that exposure to critical pedagogy will affect their political orientations and behavior...

...The parents of the new student generation, as noted before, were themselves most probably products of the silent and conformist 1950s...

...Generals often fight past wars in- stead of seeing new possibilities...

...it was the will to act upon them...

...The recent call for registration by President Carter has, in fact, already generated some campus resistance and led to a reawakening of a serious student interest in "foreign affairs" which was non-existent when anti-Iranian and anti-Soviet polemics did not potentially jeopardize student careers and lives...

...There is for the frost time a significant Marxist intellectual presence on the faculties of many institutions of higher learning and Marxist ideas have gained respect in key disciplines...

...They may also campaign to end artificial restrictions on medical school admis- sions which bid up the price of medical care, as well as fight for early retirement legislation...

...A final change in the college popula- tion which should weaken the prospects for militant student activism is the vast increase in the proportion of female to male students...

...Explorations of alternative institutional arrangements and social problems are accordingly ne- glected...

...Demographics aside, other factors will decrease the likelihood of student revolt...

...Although campuses remained rela- tively dormant in the very early 1970s, the still increasing size of the student population, and continuing trends in so- cial science specialization, made them no less susceptible to radicalization than a few years earlier...

...Both strate- gies should further erode the social base for student activism...

...Most important in the recent transfor- mation of the campus and a trend not likely to be reversed quickly, has been the sharp drop in social science majors...

...Labor could hardly be found, and intellectuals followed more than they led...

...The radical social critics of the late 1940s and 1950s looked first to the labor movement and then to the intellectuals to lead movements for social change...

...One could argue, of course, that con- tinued economic insecurity for college graduates might turn careerism into a pointless ritual...

...For those who envision a student-professional-worker alliance, it is safe to say that all these possible stu- dent initiatives will meet stiff opposition from professional unions and lobbies...

...The level of social criticism in the print, electroni'c media, and in school textbooks has been far higher dur- ing the formative years of the new stu- dents than when their predecessors ar-rived on campus in the sixties• Today's students are less captivated when en-countering liberal or even Marxist pro- fessors...

...However, the age gap between themselves and younger students, as well as their distinctive lifestyles, will dis- courage any participation in student poli- tics...

...The one issue that surely could mobilize students, a threatened return of Commonweal: 210 the draft, should be a troubling one for radicals, unless opposition to conscrip- tion is rooted in anti-war sentiment rather than defense of middle-class privileges...

...They are, on the whole, more conservative than earlier cohorts, but even the liberal and radical students are more cynical than angry about social conditions...

...T HE SITUATION since the mid-:seventies is different in this regard...

...Yet it was college students and blacks who in- augurated the wave of unrest in the 1960s...

...For information write to Bean Leander E. Keck 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Ct...

...Be- cause many of them will not primarily be interested in launching careers, voc-ationalism may not appeal to them...

...Older students are likely to be either employed full- or part-time, re-tired, or unemployed housewives return- ing to college after raising a family...

...Barfing an unlikely historical catastrophe or a dramatic economic recovery coupled with the intoxication of another "Kennedy-type" presidency leading to a renewed hope and then angry disillu- sionment, it is best this time not to look for Lefty in the groves of academe...

...If radical pedagogy shocked students in the 1960s, the current generation is over- dosed on it...

...Older students may well become involved in union affairs, other forms of work-related activism, or get involved in community-based political activity...

...Con- tinued stagflation will also militate against the emergence of a non-materialistic counter-culture...

...Yet a dramatic alteration in the make-up and orienta- tions of the students in the past few years renders them relatively immune to the concerns which might make radical fac- ulty members intellectually and politi- cally influential...

...Their older brothers and sisters probably missed the era of revolt as well, so it will be difficult for the torch to be handed down...

...Aside from the critical reduction in employment opportunities for graduates, which turned students to- ward "private" concerns, it was primar- ily changes in subjective conditions which caused protest to vanish...

...The collapse of a unifying liberal or new left ideology in the late sixties has, in fact, led to the general balkanization of cam- pus life...

...Work is offered leading to the M. Div., M.A.R., and S.T.M...

...Students entering college this year were only seven or eight when the new left col- lapsed...

...More probably, students will challenge some privileges, such as tenure, of pro- fessionals already in the labor force...

...In 1960, males accounted for almost two-thirds of enrollment, compared to little more than half today...

...This devel- opment along with the anticipated significant reduction in mid-1980s enrollment, stemming from the "baby bust" of the 1960s, will encourage higher education policy-makers to introduce more vocationally-related programs and try to increase adult enrollment...

...Despite the impact of the women's movement, there is still a greater propen- sity for males to rebel militantly against authority...

...From today's vantage point we can see that history does not always repeat itself...

...Political beliefs did not disappear...

...Although this could happen, it is unlikely things will deteriorate so much that the belief in the possibility of finding rewarding employment will disappear...

...Between 1971 and 1976 bachelor's de- grees conferred in social science fields dropped 18 percent• By contrast, biolog- ical science degrees rose by 51 percent, business and management 24 percent and psychology 31 percent• By 1976 there were almost 30,000 fewer social science degrees earned than in 1972, though overall college enrollment was still climbing...

...06510 Purpose: ]o prepare stuaents theologically for competent commitment to Church Renewal and for the broad range of ministries in the Church...

...Exacerbated by shrinking re- sources and opportunities, students iden- tify increasingly with sex, race, ethnic- ity, and sexual orientation...

...In music and liturgy through the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale and the School of Music at Yale • In social work through a joint-degree program with the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut = In education through the Teacher Preparation Program at Yale, and through a joint-degree program with the School of Education at the University of Connecticut...

...Anger generates militancy...

...Moreover, domestic political opposition to foreign adventures is far more likely when people face the prospect of con- scription...

...degrees...

...If the resistance quickly succeeds in frus- trating Carter's efforts, campuses will probably return to quiescence and apathy...

...Yale Divinity School Berkeley Divinity School The Yale Divinity School, an interdenominational seminary, and the Berkeley Divinity School, an Episcopal seminary, have affiliated and function as one of the Iffaduate professional schools of Yale University...

...Nuclear plants are not located on campuses, and the fear of racial quotas in a chronically tight labor market will con- tinue to divide whites and blacks...

...The School also offers a number of interdisciplinary programs...

...ACADEMIC YEAR 1980-81 Summer Session Fall and Spring Semester •June 30 - August 9 Theological Emphasis Theological Foundations Old Testament Writings Teachings of Vatican II New Testament Writings Early Christian Writings Contemporary Moral Problems Grace and Theological Virtues Pastoral Emphasis Church Renewal Theology and Ministry of the Word Christian Discipleship Sin, Conversion and Evangelism Program Requirements: 36 Credit Hours (Twelve Courses) Admission Requirements: Contact the Graduate Education Office The College of Steubenville Steubenville, Ohio 43952 Franciscan Way Phone (614) 283-3771 ii 11 April 1980:211...

...Not only has the number of social sci- ence majors dropped, but the diminish- ing economic value of all degrees may help explain the surprising decline in total college enrollment in 1978 com-pared to the previous year...

...Vocationalism in- variably accommodates students to an existing institutional structure and fosters a pre-occupation with the attainment of individual career goals...

...cynicism leads to passivity...

...While projected job shortages for social science majors no doubt ac- counts for much of the decline, it is also likely that fewer of the newer cohorts of students inherited liberal or radical poli- tics from their 1950's-educated parents than did the students of the sixties from theirs...