I Colleges change image to increase enrollment The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 5, 1984- Page 3 Yale workers return without a contract (Continued from Page 1) . freshman spots, and applications been up "a couple of hundred year," Hulbert said. have each OTHER SCHOOLS have had less humorous struggles with image. The University of Miami for most of its 59-year history drew smirks as a haven for the casual student. In 1980, the image worsened amid Miami's racial unrest and increasing drug traf- _ icking. "Many hundreds of students who had planned to study here did not," said president Edward Foote. While Foote conceded in an interview ,that his school would probably be associated with nice weather "as long as there's snow in New York City," the ,university has reversed the slide in ap- plications, with freshman enrollment up to 1,772 this fall from 1,463 a year earlier. Miami opened an honors college this fall and boosted the number of merit scholarships to attract academically fable students. As a result, the school claims that mean verbal and math Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of its latest freshman class are 1,059, up 97 points from five years ago, placing it among the 200 most competitive ;colleges in the country. "Images, whatever they are, change slowly. But we are emerging from the negative image that all you get here is a suntan," said Foote. Like Miami, part of Brooklyn College's image problem has to do with surroundings. To many, Brooklyn is either a place to be ridiculed or avoided. t "WHEN YOU think of Brooklyn, a lot of people get an image of John Travolta or Sylvester Stallone," said Jerry Tub- bs, a 27-year-old graduate student from Texas who chose Brooklyn College because of its low tuition, $2,550 for out- bf-staters, $1,275 for New Yorkers and the chance to study under Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbury. Brooklyn College's image has had abrupt ups and downs. In the decade af- ter it opened in 1930, some called it "The Little Red Schoolhouse" because communist and left-wing groups thrived on campus. In the 1950s until the late 1960s, it was known as the "poor man's Harvard" because it charged no tuition but maintained rigorous academic standards. Then in 1969, the city opened its four-year colleges to any high school graduate who cared to at- tend, regardless of academic creden- tials. The policy made Brooklyn College's population swell from about 15,000 to a cramped 35,000 by the mid-1970s. Just as abruptly, New York City's fiscal crisis in 1975 forced city colleges to charge tuition and, later, to require cer- tain academic standings for admission. The student population dropped to current levels of about 14,700. COLLEGE president Robert Hess said the school's academic reputation was "badly shaken" in the 1970s. But he said a 4-year-old "Core Curriculum," a 10-course liberal arts requirement for all students, will help the school regain its former grandeur. The curriculum gives undergraduates heavy doses of art, music, chemistry, bioloby, com- puter science, and humanities. A report last week by the National Endowment for the Humanities singled out its core curriculum as one of a few "bright spots" among current liberal arts programs. The University of Denver's image problem is more subtle, and serious. In the 1960s, said chancellor Dwight Smith, Denver decided to appeal to top students as an alternative to Harvard or Yale. It became the classic "safe school," the third or fourth choice of academically capable youngsters. In the 1970s, however, the school "was sprouting new programs and we got a confused image," Smith said. Now, with fewer potential freshman and top schools dipping deeper into their applicant pools, Denver's pool is evaporating - from 5,000 in 1980 to about 3,000. About 40 percent of its students drop out before graduating, and the school has been operating in the red for three years. Denver has been taking steps to clarify its image - eliminating weaker departments such as theater and its school to train librarians and nurses. The key step will be a "core curriculum," beginning next fall, to place rigorous liberal arts requiremen- ts on all undergraduates, including, for the first time, a foreign language requirement. "We plan to become smaller, but bet- ter," said Smith. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - About 1,500 Yale University clerical and technical workers returned to their jobs yesterday without a contract, enabling dining halls to reopen, libraries to resume normal hours and classes to move back on campus. Members of Local 34, Federation of University Employees, voted 800-250 last week in favor of the return-to-work strategy, which is aimed at pressuring the Yale administration into reaching a first-ever contract for the union. STRIKERS, who walked off their jobs Sept. 26, reasoned that they would be more effective back at work earning paychecks during the holiday season, which includes a winter recess when many university offices will be closed. Yale officials said things went smoothly on the Ivy Leaguescampus yesterday, but some workers said they felt uneasy. "There's some discomfort, but no confrontations. I'm not speaking to the scabs, but I'm not hassling with them," said Andrea Antonucci, a librarian at Sterling Library. ABOUT 1,000 clerical and technical workers refused to join the strike, remaining on the job since the walkout. Antonucci was among the minority of union members who opposed the plan to return to their jobs until mid-January, then walk out with members of an af- filiated blue-collar union if contracts aren't settled by then. "I'm not happy to be back at work without a contract, but I'm doing what the majority of the union voted to do," she said. "EVERYTHING was quiet, Everyone was well-behaved," said Steve Kazarian, a Yale spokesman. "Things were back to normal." However, the office workers who walked off their jobs were supported by about 950 members of Local 35, a union of food service and maintenance workers, who honored the picket lines and refused to work. Yale had been trying to force blue- collar union back to work and a grievance filed by the university is pending. Bugge congressman Associated Press Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who also is in the extermination business, takes a look < on the floor of a Capitol Hill office yesterday for mice and cockroaches.1 DeLay said the House office buildings are crawling with these pests and that he should be made chairman of the committee in charge of the maintenance of the buildings. Hackers pursue electronic revenge (Continued from Page 1) best bulletin boards in the country, and other hackers were leaving messages for him, Sandza said. But by the time the story hit the streets, some of the hackers knew he was a Newsweek reporter; others were upset. His phone started ringing with hun- dreds of calls from hackers, some threatening to blow up his house, disconnect his telephone or turn off his power. In a piece in this week's Newsweek describing his computerized night- mare, Sandza said he was put on teletrial on a Gainesville, Texas, bulletin board known as Dragonfire, with a prosecutor called Unknown Warrior and a judge known as Ax Mur- derer. Possible sentences ranged from "life exile from the entire planet" to "kill the dude," Sandza wrote. "It was sort of a game. They were calling me up, I was talking to some and hanging up on others," he said yesterday. "Some realized disclosure about their methods and sources would only lead to public awareness and that should lead to somebody doing something about it." P er ntel~IM.rsen 1~s skilledtsct0T o updated tul LOW a atfat cnen 662=3149 203 E. 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