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Show BYU ranks 12th in colleges survey in nation Brigham Young University ranks 12th among the nation's colleges and universities in enrollment en-rollment in journalism and communications, according to the annual survey by Journalism Journal-ism Quarterly. Of 145 institutions with degree-granting programs, University Uni-versity of Georgia leads in total to-tal enrollment of majors with 891, the survey showed. BYU continued to rank as the largest larg-est school west of the Missouri with 548 students. The BYU total is a gain of IVi percent over its enrollment of 510 in fall semester of 1968. Enrollment in the BYU Department De-partment of Communications by classes is: freshman, 101; sophomore, soph-omore, 107; junior, 165; senior, 134; graduate, 40. The total number of degrees granted to majors in 1969 was 126, including includ-ing 110 bachelor degrees and 16 master's degrees In the Journalism Quarterly survey, schools were asked to specify the number of juniors and seniors majoring in various areas of specialization in communications. com-munications. Of the 299 junior and senior majors at BYU, 133 are majoring in advertising. 102 in broadcasting, and 64 in news-editorial journalism. Among the top schools in the country the BYU enrollment is the fifth largest in broadcasting, broadcast-ing, tenth largest in advertising, advertis-ing, and 19th largest in journalism. journ-alism. Following BYU in the list of major schools, the only other western universities in the top 25 in total enrollment were San Jose State, Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, and Nebraska. Prof. J. Morris Richards is chairman of the BYU Department Depart-ment of Communications, one of four departments in the College Col-lege of Fine Arts and Communications. Commun-ications. This year taxpayers of Utah Will pay around $1,033,474,613 in federal, state and local 'nX-es 'nX-es of one kind or another. This is a lot of money. It is 607 as much as the total assessed valuation of the state ($1,738,-535,329). ($1,738,-535,329). It is equal to 36', of the total personal income of $2,906,000,000. It makes Utah a charter member of the exclusive ex-clusive "Billion Dollar Club." Back in 1950, the estimated total tax load of Ut?h was but $245,690,562. Since that time, it has jumped to $1,033,474,613. This is $787,784,051, or 321', increase. The increase even since 1960 is $434 million. This is a serious matter. What has been happening? In 1950, the federal take was $160 million. Later, by fighting two wars along with general centralization of power in Washington, the New Frontier. the Great Society, Liberalizing Welfare, Medicare, Aid to Education, Edu-cation, and hundreds of other Grants-In-Aid programs, and Excursions to the Moon and the like, we have come up with a figure of $653,200,000. Federal taxes in 19d0 constituted consti-tuted 65', of our total Utah tax load. This year the federal take amounts to just over 637. Also, the federal tax load since 1950 has increased 3077 while the state and local burden has gone up 3467. This, is significant. |