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One not enough
Colleges
seeing an
increase in
double
majors.
Sarah Broders
Assistant News Editor
Many college students are
choosing to widen their field of
expertise and pursue multiple
majors.
At Georgetown University, 23
percent of 2002 undergraduates
had two majors, as opposed to 14
percent in 1996. At Washington
University, 42 percent of arts and
sciences undergraduates had two
majors, as opposed to 28 percent
five years earlier. Over 160 under
graduates at the University of
Wisconsin have three, four or
even five majors.
UNCW is no different. “What
we have seen is that up until and
around the 1980s there were 10 or
so students who graduated with a
second major,” said Nannette
Manning, Director and Electronic
Records Officer of University
Planning, Assessment and
Institutional Research. "Then in
the first half of the 1990s we saw
that double to around 20. We saw
another jump from around 40 in
1995 to 90 in 1997. The number
has remained around 100 since
1999.”
Bonnie Howard, assistant reg
istrar. said that although she has
not seen a fourth major, there
have been a handful of students at
UNCW with three majors.
There are several ways stu
dents are able to accomplish earn
ing multiple majors. Freshmen
come into UNCW with many
credits from advanced placement
high school classes or summer
school. Students enroll in classes
that will fulfill requirements for
core courses, as well as courses in
one or both of their majors.
Elective credit hours are also used
to fulfill requirements for their
majors.
“I think students certainly have
enough room in the credit hours to
get a double major,” geography
professor Elizabeth Hines said.
Some professors have mixed
feelings on whether or not a stu
dent should pursue more than one
major. Hines, for example feels
that if a student is going into the
business sector, there is no point
in pursuing more than one major.
If a student were going on to grad
uate school then the double major
would be more useful. “I still
think that the best strategy is to
take a variety of subjects and see
what you like, then concentrate in
that in your junior and senior
year.”
Some majors can easily be
combined, like certain sciences
such as biology and chemistry,
said Scott Quackenbush, profes
sor and department chair for the
biological sciences department.
President Bush and the First Lady sing with soldiers gearing for war.
News from the Winter Break
James Flint
Editor-in-Chief
While college campuses were
quiet over the holiday break, the
rest of the world was in full spin.
The first day of 2003 brought
news of more troops being
deployed to the Persian Gulf.
According to a recent article from
the Associated Press 15,000 to
17,000 soldiers will be deployed
in the first few weeks of 2003.
The thousands of soldiers being
sent from Fort Stewart and Fort
Benning in Georgia are tank
operators, attack helicopter pilots
and highly mobile infantry.
The Pentagon has prepared
thousands of personnel and two
aircraft carriers full of combat
aircraft to go to the Persian Gulf
The USS Abraham Lincoln, a
large nuclear powered aircraft
carrier, will remain in the Pacific
Ocean and Arabian Gulf instead
of returning home in February as
previously scheduled. All move
ment is in part of preparation for
war with Iraq.
On Monday, Jan. 6 — Iraqi
Army day — Saddam Hussein
announced through a televised
speech that his country was ready
for war with the United States and
criticized United Nations weapon
inspectors of being intelligence
gatherers according to an
Associated Press report. In the
same speech, Saddam said that
the U.S. threats to disarm his
country are a distraction from
U.S. problems both at home and
overseas.
The verified nuclear capabili
ties of North Korea is a problem
Bush and his advisers are working
on. According to a report by
CNN, the United States agreed to
meet with North Korea about end
ing their nuclear operations.
North Korea has developed
two nuclear bombs and sells
SCUD missies to Yemen.
The United States also faces
problems at home. The country is
at the highest rate of unemploy
ment in eight years. According to
NBC Nightly News, there are cur
rently 8.5 million unemployed
Americans, which is 6 percent of
the U.S. population.
The Bush administration has a
new economic stimulus plan that
will benefit every tax paying
American. The $674 billion plan
will take place over the next 10
years. The crux of the stimulus
plan is the cutting of federal
income tax on profits made selling
stock. This change in federal pol
icy will allow Americans to invest
more in the stock market, thus
improving the American economy.
President Bush told reporters
that economic growth and envi
ronmental protection are closely
related. Recent changes in envi
ronmental law call for required
limitations on three types of air
pollutant emissions from power
plants, but other regulations will
be dropped.
Certain Democrats and envi
ronmentalists claim that Bush's
changes to clean-air regulations
will hurt the environment while
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