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Other Michigan high schools are noticing a decline in the number of students interested in the University of Michigan. More students are opting for community colleges or other state schools and some decide against college altogether to find a job. In Southfield, for example, parents who have been laid-off from their jobs or aren't working as many hours, do not have the money to pay for their children to go to the University, says Todd Henderson, a guidance counselor at Southfield Lathrup High School. "The trend is - students are staying at home. In the '60s or '70s, they had to get away. Now students are realizing it is not in the realm of possibility if they want to further their education. Middle class kids are in no man's land," Hen- derson says. If a middle class student is not top- notch academically, he can't qualify for a scholarship. Such students depend on the bulk of their financial aid to come from federal and state programs. More students have to take on jobs to pay for their education or apply for loans. Last year Southfield Lathrup sent 64 seniors to the University of Michigan and 83 more to Michigan State, Hender- son says, adding that there are wealthier students who can still afford to go to the University. Suburban high schools with good academic reputations and a large per- centage of affluent families such as Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Walt Whitman High in Bethesda, Md., and New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., are still sen- ding a large number of students to Michigan. New Trier has 90 percent of its students going on to college and sends nearly 85 students to Michigan each year. The average family income in the New Trier district is $45,000 to $50,000, according to college counselor Norm Rydell. In Shaker Heights, the University of Michigan still has a great appeal to its students, but the, costs are deterring some of the students, says Al Grigsby, a guidance counselor at Shaker Heights High School. More Shaker Heights students are looking at state schools, not because of financial aid, but because parents are eager to save $5000 by sending their kids to a state school instead of spen- ding twice that sb they can go to Michigan. "Students look at Michigan as they would at any private institution, or at least a less expensive private in- stitution," Grigsby says. Michigan is not the only University where middle class students are trying to cut corners on higher education. At the University of California in Los Angeles, for instance, the school's prestigious reputation attracts students who might be considering more expen- sive private schools like Cal Tech or Stanford. "Everyone from those who don't qualify for financial aid, to the wealthiest students, are answering the hard quesiton around the dinner table: Is Stanford worth twice the price of UCLA. And the answer is no," said Richard Moll, director of admissions at University of California at Santa Cruz. Moll, who visited Michigan in 1981 while writing his book called The Public Ivies, to be released this summer, says these extra applications are a factor in Infornmation for the graph was provic Xbu get more good pizza for your money at Unos. 01'70 lit _, : ' >- ' 'fit "' s ,, ,y,, . . , '' ," '" j ' ,. ' I y r. ,; . ,tt'. , W \ r { i ;r . ' 5 +i' .:,o+> i j . 0.+09 " the increasing polarization of students at the university. While the wealthier student gets a bargain going to UCLA instead of Stan- ford, saving the $2000 in tuition, the middle-to-low income students opt for community colleges. T HE CONCERN about this trend extends past those students who don't get to Michigan, but also the ef- fects this trend has on the environment on campus. Students will miss out on meeting students from different finan- cial and racial backgrounds. Meeting people from different cities, who have different and perhaps conflicting values is an essential part of a students growth. When students from the Detroit suburbs are thrown at random into dormitories, they meet people from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, Catholics meet Jews, and whites meet blacks. If enrollment becomes more homogeneous, these challenges will be lost for those students who do come here. "It is clearly a loss," says Christopher Jencks, sociology professor at Northwestern University. "You decrease the chance of making friends unlike yourself. You lose something, you lose getting to know about the world." That diversity, however, is an idealistic concept, says Jencks. A hetereogeneous environment is no guarantee that people will take advan- tage of the diversity around them. "People pick their little world and throw themselves into hanging out with people like themselves. The real world is like that too," says Jencks, who co- authored A book called The Academic Revolution. The academic curriculum will also suffer a decrase in diversity. For example, if black student enrollment continues to go down, courses on black issues will decrease along with the number of black faculty members. Jencks' co-author, Professor Emeritus D. Riesman at Harvard Univer- sity, calls diversity a myth. "Students don't know the diversity that is there now because their friendships are so superficial. Students don't profit from their fellow students despite their class and background diversity," Riesman says. He blames financial concerns for ob- taining jobs after college as a strong determining factor-in the decline of middle class students in college. Students are "running scared," Riesman says, instead of doing what in- terests them, they do what will be lucrative in the future. The students learn this attitude from their parents who are equally worried about their kids getting a job after graduation. Families have become unwilling to sacrifice .their own lifestyles for their children's education, Riesman says. Many parents will barter with their kids for their college education. For instance, one Minnesota parent promised his child a car and a trip to Europe if he would attend a community college for his first two years before moving on to Macalester College, a more expensive private school. That scenario is repeated when a parent decides to send his son or daughter to Eastern Michigan Univer- sity instead of the University of Michigan. This kind of short-term thinking will hurt a student in the long run, Riesman says. Some faculty members at the Un- iversity of Mic trend of affluen< a reflection of t titude. 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