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24 Friday, July 24, 1981

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Boris Smolar's

HAMILTON PLACE
ANNOUNCES THE
"LEISURE PLAN"

YOUR TICKET
TO PLEASURE ._..
THE AFFORDABLE
fi/AY TO
JOIN!

FOR ONE
WEEK ONLY

1/3

Hamilton Place Athletic Club in South-
field is offering the Hamilton Place
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ming, track, sandy beach, Golden Mushroom
Chef Milos and more - yours now at
affordable leisure plan rates. Join
Hamilton Place now thru Monday
and save 1/3 off. The Leisure Plan
- Your ticket to year round
pleasure at
Hamilton
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GOLDEN
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COMES TO
HAMILTON
PLACE

Golden Mushroom
owner, Reid Ashton,
and internationally
acclaimed Chef Milos,
will also be directing
food services
at Hamilton Place. Join
Now and taste the
difference.

HAMILTON
PLRCE
ATHLETIC
CLUB

30333 Southfield Rd.
(Between 12 and 13 Mile Roads)
Call or stop in anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.

`Between You
. . . and Me'

Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA

(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)

STUDENT MOODS: With the summer session of
graduations over, the American Jewish Committee has
now completed an analytical study of the moods among
Jewish students who entered colleges and universities in
1980. The study provides a useful insight into the Ameri-
can Jewish community.
Prepared for the AJCommittee by the Higher Educa-
tion Research Institute, the study brings out some new
trends in the attitudes and aspirations of the young stu-
dents of today who constitute tomorrow's intellectual ele-
ments in American Jewry.
One of the startling findings is the revelation that
there was a very substantial drop — some 25 percent — in
the number of Jewish freshmen in all colleges during the
decade. Ten years ago Jews constituted 4.2 percent of all
college freshmen in the country; by 1980, their number
dropped to 3.2 percent. The decline is thought to indicate a
drop in the number of Jewish 18-year-olds.
Another finding establishes that idealism evaporated
among Jewish students during the 1970-1980 period, and
that their major life goals have changed markedly. In 1970
almost 85 percent of all freshmen said that developments of
a philosophy of life was more important than being finan-
cially successful. In 1980 the percentage dropped to 50. Ten
years ago fewer than half of all freshmen expressed interest
in being well off financially, or being a success in their own
business. Today, 70 percent of the Jewish freshmen think it
important to be prosperous.
BUSINESS FIRST: In general, Jewish students who
entered the '80s choose business as their most favored
career. Almost 16 percent of the freshmen last year ex-
pressed themselves in favor of studying business adminis-
tration to become business executives or a business prop-
rietor. Only 12 percent gave preference to studying law
with the intention of becoming lawyers; less than eight
percent said they intend to become physicians; engineering
was chosen by less than six percent.
A sharp decline of education as a career was indicated.
The drop was from more than 18 percent 10 years ago to
slightly more than four percent in 1980. The proportion of
freshmen choosing physical and biological sciences re-
mained the same as 10 years ago — about three percent for
physical science and five percent for biological. Interest in
social sciences has waned. History and philosophy did not
attract even one percent for each. It is interesting, however,
that 8.4 percent of the 1980 freshmen — the second largest
group after business — have chosen arts and humanities as
their major field.
The greatest number of Jewish freshmen attend pri-
vate universities, where they are 8.6 percent of the total.
POLITICAL VIEWS: Politically, the number of
Jewish freshmen who call themselves "left" had dropped
from 8.9 percent in 1970 to 1.9 percent in 1980. Quite a
drop. About 93 percent declared themselves in 1980 as
being "middle-of-the-road," and more than 32 percent de-
scribed themselves as "liberal." About 12 percent called
themselves "conservatives."

Bar-Ilan U.S. Friends Elect
Victor Geller to Their Board

NEW YORK — Victor B.
Geller, former dean of the
division of communal serv-
ices at Yeshiva University,
has been named executive
vice president of the Ameri-
can Board of Overseers of
Bar-Ilan University.
Long active in Jewish
communal work, Geller will
direct all university de-
velopment and fund-raising
activities in the U.S. His re-
sponsibilities will include
supervision of the activities
of Bar-Ilan's field offices in
Los Angeles, Miami and De-
troit and its American
headquarters in Manhat-
tan.
Geller was graduated
from Yeshiva University,
where he received a BA de-
gree in 1948 and a master's
degree in community ad-
ministration in 1950.
After serving for four
years as director of the
community activities di-

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VICTOR GELLER

vision of the Union of Or-
thodox Jewish Congre-
gations of America, he re-
turned to Yeshiva Uni-
versity as field director of
its community services
division.
In 1977, Geller was
named dean of the. division
of communal service activi-
ties at Yeshiva University.

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