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Show Students Worry Too Much About Studies: U.S. News "liege marriages. The article Indicated that 20 per cent of college students are married. When the college student does graduate, the trend is toward secure employment A large percentage per-centage find this security in big companies. DRINKING AND sex still remain re-main as disciplinary problems but no more so than in the past. An official of a large midwestem university, speaking anonymously, anonymous-ly, said that sex is more open and more common now. The concensus of the article is that colleges officials who used to worry about students inot studying now fear that they are studying too mch and becoming be-coming too serious too soon. Students of today are much more senous about their studies ttan ever before according to a report l the Feb. 17 issle of News and World Report." THE MAGAZINE article ex-Phuned ex-Phuned that college officials are beginning to worry about students stu-dents who take their grades too seriously. Many feel students are nskmg their health in the competitive com-petitive fight for higher grades. James Denison, administrative assistant to the president at Michigan State University, said There's not one-half the rah-rah rah-rah that I knew in college, ineres an intensity, a nervousness nervous-ness we wish they didn't have. We would like to find some way to get them to relax. A CHANGE in the average college students was noted by Pres. John W. McConnell of the University of New Hampshire. ' Students today are better. Fewer Few-er are playboys. They know they can't afford to be. They realize that they must work hard to stay in college and their future depends de-pends on doing good. Competition Competi-tion has become more intense." Students must meet the challenge chal-lenge of a more competitive college col-lege career and life. Students are expected to produce more today than dad did some 20 years ago. Today a student must get an education or be left behind. be-hind. On of the largest single factors making students serious seri-ous is the large number of |
