Volume IX, Number 5
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October 2, 1986
staff photo-Jonna McGrath
All drained out
Literature Professor Dr. Merritt Moseley
donatec/ blood last Thursday when Red Cross
nurse Jos lane Seymour and the Bloodmoblle
VIsI ted campus.
Gender study says
women do better
Student overflow
closes some classes
By Libby Ramsey
Staff Writer
Know anyone who found them
selves squeezed out of a
class this fall because there
wasn't enough room?
It's not unusual these
days.
Due to a record high regi
stration this fall, the En
rollment Services office had
to turn students away from
classes, according to Dr.
Bill Petz, vice chancellor
for enrollment services.
Enrollment for the fall
semester increased 16 percent
over 1985-86, said Petz.
The classes were full and
there were not enough addi
tional instructors or class-
Loudonvllle, NY (CPS)
Women get higher grades
than men, and probably do
better in college beqause
they mature faster, says a
six-year study by a sociology
professor at Siena State Col
lege in upstate New York.
”Women students consistent
ly did better (in college)
than did the men students,"
said Professor Paul Murray.
"During their four years at
school, women improve their
rooms to absorb the overflow,
said Dr. Jeff Rackham, vice
chancellor for academic af
fairs. >
Each year the administra
tion submits an estimate to
the UNC Board of Governors of
the number of students ex
pected to attend UNCA. The
overflow of classrooms and
shortage of instructors is a
result of underestimating
that number, Rackham said.
The Enrollment Services
office bases their estimates
on computerized enrollment
patterns and trends.
Projections in enrollment
increases range from four to
five percent, Rackham said.
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study habits. The men don’t."
"It appears," he said.,
"that sometimes the academic
end of college becomes a se
condary pursuit for males."
Murray, in trying to -figure
out why some students got
better grades than others,
examined students' academic
and family backgrounds, liv
ing arrangements, extracurri
cular activities and study
habits before finding that
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X V ijPr
Staff photo-Casey Baluss
Women with wits
Leslie Shope, Beth McDougald and Jennifer
Browning (left to right) study last week In the
Carmichael Hall lobby. A recent survey Indicates
women do better In college than men.