Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Being a student . Yi. 5' in 1975... 'J . iv i i i JOBS 'v Looking for practical solutions in ct real world ONE ARE the bomb scares, the rallies, the profes- sors pleading with their classes to keep KSU open. lt is a new breed of college student--pragmatic, complacent and deeply concerned with career and financial future. For the most part, the KSU student of today was a high school or junior high school student during the late sixties who never faced the draft and was never involved in polit- ical activism. Most still do not exercise the franchise won through the lobbying efforts of their elders. The same economy which in the past welcomed college graduates with open arms plays havoc with them now. The unfavorable odds in the job market have led many students away from rhetoric and idealism and toward practical solu- tions for survival in the real world. There has been a change in attitude, claims Thomas Hairston of the Placement Bureau. Students are most in- clined to work within the establishment than to stand off and take pot-shots at it. ln a hard market, students or graduates are hesitant to question goals or beliefs of poten- tial employers, such as those manufacturing weapons or military equipment. The carrot is no longer outstretched before the college graduate. For some, staying in school is a goal. The demand for training in medicine, law, architecture and other profes- sional fields surpasses by far the capacities of higher educa- tion to handle students in these areas. Story by Keith Sinzinger A major trend away from education and liberal arts finds more students in fine and professional arts. Journalism, art and telecommunications enjoy healthy enrollments, while education, the leading college for four years ago, has fallen to less than 20 per cent of KSU enrollment. Although enrollment in the College of Business Admini- stration has retained a fairly constant percentage over the last five years, more students are pursuing two or more concentrations of interest to increase their job chances. According to Hairston, careers in marketing and sales, although not valued by students as most desirable, are promising because demand is insatiable Employment opportunities in the service industries--food, health, clothing and finance are attracting many students fearful of what a history or English degree would hold for their future. While students of today may appear to be a resurrection of their parents with a change only in clothes, the outlook of many is borrowed straight from the sixties. People want jobs where they can continue to be themselves, says Dr. John Binder of Academic Advising and Orientation. The organization man of the fifties is not the ideal anymore. The popular analogy of college life today to the fifties fails on other points. The best of the sixties has been bor- lSee next page.i With the job market as tough as it has been, Kent students are increasingly concemed with employment and many make use of the KSU Placement Bureau, opposite and above.

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RR Views of Kent Cross Country Football .......... Football Defeat ........ Homecoming 1974 ..... Soccer .................... Exercising ................. The Code of Karate .... Skydiving .............. Equitation .... Basketball ............................ Focus on Women in Sports .... Project Dove ...................... Professing the Future .. Cancer Research ........................... Dr. Franklin's Psychic Research Shelly's Book Bar ....................... ..... The New Kent Quarterly ..... The Birds, Theater ............. on Stage, Concerts ..... National Guard Trial .... Seniors ..................... Chestnut Burr Staff .... Sports Scores ......... Organizations .... Calendar ....... 134 138 144 150 156 160 164 170 176 180 184 188 196 200 206 21 1 214 219 222 228 234 239 280 288 292 294 EU to 'Qs Q ill ul I T O O ,719 . t9x The 1975 Chestnut Burr was printed in an edition of 6,500 copies, size 9x12, 304 pages on 80 lb. Mead Offset Enamel Dull Manufactured by the Mead Paper Corp. of Dayton, Ohio, and printed in black ink. The endsheets are 65 Ib. Solid Color Imperial Ivory manufactured by Hammermill Paper Company, Erie, Pennsylvania. The cover material is Dupont Tyvec converted as Shantung Red Triton by Columbia Mills, Minetto, New York, Iithographed and case made over 160 pt. Binders Board by Herff Jones, Cover Division at Montgomery, Alabama. The 1975 Chestnut Burr was printed by the HIJ Keller Division of Carnation Company in their plant at Gettysburg, Pennsylvanis. Senior portraits were taken by Delma Studios of New York City. Special Thanks to: John Urian, The Daily Kent Stater, SPPC, Dr. Richard Brede- meier, Campus Police, Paul Mosher, Warren Graves, Don Shook, Dr. Murvin Perry, Frank Ritzinger, Susan Murcko, Craig Pulver, Barb Sudick, Greg Santos, PhotoJournal Press, Black United Students Executive Board, Delma Studios, Sam Fields, Jerry Schneider, Whitfield Delaplane, Robert Lund, Woolfie Special Thanks also to Arthur Stafford for the NAACP Food Coupon Ripoff story. Student Publications Policy Committee lSPPCl: Mary Luschin, Debra Mikolajczak, Dan Nienaltowski, J.F. McKenna, Richard Friesenhengst, Frank Erickson, Carl Moore, Gene Stebbins, Murvin Perry, Richard Bredemeier., University Administration President: Dr. Glen A. Olds Executive Vice President and Provost: Dr. John W. Snyder Vice Presidents: Walter G. Bruska, Richard E. Dunn, Dr. James W. McGrath, Dr. Fay R. Biles, Dr. David A. Ambler Board of Trustees: Robert L. Baumgardner, Robert W. Blakemore, Kenneth W. Clement, M.D., Joyce K. Ouirk, Robert H. Stopher, William D. Taylor, Robert E. Tschantz, M.D., William M. Williams

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