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Show Well talffi it off your hands. An opening on campus: Students who applied for this fall's college classes found that many traditionally difficult-to-ent- er schools are now actively seeking enrollment. by David R.TreadwellJr. Director of Admissions, Ohio Wesleyan University years ago, an eager parent hinted an admissions officer at an university that a favorable to his son's application might put a new car in the admissions officer's garage. Today, it would be more likely for the admissions officer to offer the car to the father in exchange for a promise to enroll his son or daughter at that university. There has been a tremendous change in the college admissions picture in the last few years instead of students competing for the colleges, the colleges are competing for the students. Consider these recent developments: A small private college in Indiana pays its own undergraduates a "bounty" of $100 a head for each new student they lure to the campus. A Midwestern college selects a group of students as "scouts" who scour the countryside for prospective applicant during the January midsemester period. In September, 1971, there were Ten No matter what your hands get into, BORAXO Powdered Hand Soap will help you come clean. After all, BORAXO is the largest selling, most widely used industrial hand cleaner. BORAXO Powdered Hand Soap with its g grime fighters have been helping industry clean up for over 70 years. And with BORAXOCreme Hand Cleaner you can wash up without water anywhere. 1 Come clean with deep-cleanin- j BORAXO Hie cleaners die pros use. 110,000 vacancies in U.S. colleges and universities. By September, 1972, the number had risen to 300,000 and by this September it is expected to reach 500,000. Only 49 percent of the 3 million U.S. high school graduates entered college in 1972 the lowest figure in four years. Where have all the students gone? Several major causes for the decline are cited. The annual growth in the numhas slowed. Within ber of five years, the number of high school graduates will be decreasing. The end of the military draft has eliminated a seldom-admitte- d but often-use- d reason for enrolling in college. The rise of two-yecolleges has cut into the total of those entering four-yeinstitutions. The result of all these factors is that admissions officers no longer lean back in their chairs smoking their pipes while deciding which applicants to accept. Instead, they're busy flying to Boston, Kansas City, or Steubenville, Ohio, ar ar PARADE AUGUST 26, W3 |