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PAGE 4 — THE DECREE — MARCH 15,1991 Illegal drug usage down on campuses CLASSS AT CONSOLIDATED DIESEL — Cleve Whatley, N.C. Wesleyan College adjunct profes sor (left), teaches Principles of Management at Consolidate Diesel in Whitakers. Wesleyan’s Adult Degree Program has expanded into Consolidated Diesel and Northern Telecom in Research Triangle Park for the convenience of its students. Wesleyan offering courses ’on-site’ at major factories (Continued from Front Page) in a non-work atmosphere, but feels there would be a “broader scope” if employees from other businesses were included in the class. He has attended classes with other companies’ employees and feels they help to give “alternative feedback” Loan programs offered in state Three educational loan pro grams for North Carolina resi dents attending colleges in or out of state and for non-residents at tending colleges in North Caro lina are available through College Foundation, Inc. The loan programs are funded by North Carolina banks and other investors. Stafford Loans are for depen dent or independent students and are based on financial need. Supplemental Loans are for in dependent self-supporting stu dents and are not based on finan cial need. PLUS Loans are for parents of dq)endent students and are not based on financial need. For more information, write College Foundation, Inc., 21(X) Yonkers Road, P.O. Box 12100, Raleigh, NC 27605-2100, or call 919-821-4771. However, he feels these prob lems are minor when compared to the convenience of taking a class at the wo± site. Foster is working toward a degree in busi ness management. He said “it is easy to jump into class” when he does not have to drive, and will take more classes if they are of fered in his field. Matthew Solomon, manager of advanced manufacturing and en gineering, is a “strong proponent” of the program. The convenience, elimination of travel, and “excel- lent on-site resources” make the class perfect for him. Solomon is wcffking toward a BS/B A and will take more classes if they are of fered. He said the program “fits right in” with his schedule. On Monday nights at 5:30 p.m., 18 Northern Telecom em ployees assemble for Business 105, Marketing. Sherry Casey, a Wesleyan student at the campus extension in Raleigh, helped to organize this class. “Everyone is very enthusiastic about the class. Many of the stu dents enjoy the convenience of not having to drive someplace in orda* to take classes and because the class comes to them, they don’t have to wOTry about park ing, or fitting in with traditional students,” she said. Northern Telecom is a conve nient location for them — most simply have to step out of their office—and offers a comfortable atmosphere. According to Casey, the idea came ^ut because em ployees were interested in career development Howevw, because of business obligations, it is dif ficult for them to leave work in Research Triangle Park and drive to the campus extension in Ra leigh in order to take the class. The convenience of the class itself almost guarantees that the pro gram will continue and grow. Harrison said that while there are “no plans for expanding into other businesses” in the Rocky Mount area, she hopes to “con tinue classes at CDC.” Wesleyan’s campus is conve nient for most other businesses’ employees in the Rocky Mount area, but CDC operates on a “different time structure.” Pl^ for expanding the satel lite program in Raleigh are un derway. The campus extensbn will soon offer a compute course at another Northern Telecom site, and expansion into all seven NothOTi Telecom sites in Raleigh is possible. “I am very pleased with the program, and the students are quite h2^y with die experience,” Harrison concladed. The number of college high school students who use illegal drugs sharply declined in 1990, a nationwide study has contended. Students’ consumption of al cohol remains at about the same high levels of prior years, the an nual survey by the National In stitute of Health and the Univer sity of Michigan also found. “Clearly our young people are gradually moving away from nearly all forms of illicit drug use,” concluded Lloyd D. Johnston, the survey’s director and a social scientist at Michigan. Researchers found that about one-third of the 1,200 college students surveyed had used an il licit drug in the past year. One-third of high school stu dents asked also reported they had used an ilUcit drug during 1990. By contrast, last year’s survey found that 50.8 percent of all . college students and high school seniors had used illicit drugs in 1989. “We are seeing a continuing decline in the proportion of these populations who are actively us ing any illicit drug, as well as in the proportions using a number of specific drugs such as mari juana, cocaine, crack, stimulants, and sedatives,” Johnston reported. Students’ use of alcohol is de clining much more slowly than other drugs. In 1990,75 percent of college students surveyed said they hM consumed alcohol during the past month, down from a high of 83 percent in 1982. While students apparently are using illicit drugs less frequently, Johnston added it’s not because drugs are hard to get. “Our data strongly suggest that Colleges coping Schools as diverse as St. Mary’s College in Maryland and Yale University have announced drastic new measures to cope with funding crises. St. Mary’s unveiled efforts to save about $600,(X)0 that included disbanding summer programs, laying off 13 people, and reorga nizing its Public Safety dq)art- ment Yale laid off half the staff ers at its Career Services office. “It’s disastrous,” said Univer sity of Pennsylvania Vice Presi- d«it Mama Washington of Gov. Robert Casey’s proposals to half fimding for some state campuses. most of the decrease among young people in their use of marijuana, cocaine, crack, and PC? is due to a change in their demand for these drugs, not a change in supply,” he observed. Students “have increasingly come to see the use of these drugs as dangerous, and probably as a result, peer acceptance of such use has diminished considerably,” he said. However, it’s too early to be come overly optimistic, Johnston warned. “We must not lose sight of the fact that even today a significant fraction of our young people are involved with these drugs, and that there still remains much to be done,” he said. Recession beginning to bite at bookstores The recession is starting to af fect college bookstores, various campus store managers report. Some report sales are declin ing. Like troubled off-campus stores trying to lure customers, some are discounting the prices of the wares they seU. “We’re operating at the bare minimum here,” said Elizabeth Santerre, manager of the Quinebaug Valley Community College in Danielson, Conn., whrae classes have been cancelled because of budget problems. To attract more custom^s, the Harvard Co-op offered a 10 per cent discount on textbooks in October. This semester, the store is discounting some paperbacks 10 percent Most others, though, say eco nomic conditions are less of a factor in their fiscal health than enrollment is. At community colleges, moreover, enroUment typically increases when the economy weakens, so many bookstores there actually are anticipating in creased sales. “It takes a while to filter in,” said Gene Trout general manager at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “We’re more affected by the university’s situaticm. As long as enrollment is up, we don’t feel the effects.” “I really haven’t seen any change at all, as £ar as people spen^g money,” added Teresa Jones, bookstrae manage at hi- dependence (Kan.) Community CoU^e.
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