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College women drop
careers for men
(CPS) - Many college
women abandon or subordinate
their career goals to their mates'
careers, a researcher at the
University of Colorado has
found.
Margaret Eisenhart, a
professor at CU, surveyed 350
women at two unnamed
universities, and regularly
interviewed 23 of the women
over a period of eight years.
By the end of the period,
only five of the 23 women had
full-time careers, although all
23 had started college with
ambitions of becoming doctors,
lawyers or diplomats, Eisenhart
reported.
Most of the other women
had children and part-time jobs
they really didn't want, having
sacrificed their plans in favor of
their husbands' or boyfriends'
careers, she said.
Eisenhart said they had
fallen victim to "a sexual
auction block where their
attractiveness to men is
continually being reviewed and
ranked by their peers.
"It's a subtle peer system
by which men and women are
reproducing the status quo in
Baylor senior seeks
long lost love
(CPS)- A romantic senior
from Baylor University in Texas
is desperately seeking a woman
named Meg in Massachusetts.
Or maybe it is Margaret
Fifty-five women at Harvard
University, all of them named
Margaret, Megan or Meg,
received letters in late April
from a Baylor senior who said
he was looking for a woman
named Meg he met five years
ago during spring break.
"Hit My name is Eric
Mills," the letter read. "I am on
a nearly impossible search for
someone I met five years ago. I
met a girl named Meg on a
cruise during the spring break of
my senior year in high school.
The only problem is, I don't
know her last name."
gender relations."
Some female college
students say Eisenhart is off
track.
Amy Egeland, an
elementary education major at
Central Washington University,
called Eisenhart's comments
"harsh."
"Isn't it natural to want to
meet people?" Egeland asked.
Egeland, who is engaged
and will be putting her fiance
through law school, said she
thought both men and women
face losses in a situation where
both parties want to stay
together and have careers.
However, other female
college students seem to agree
with Eisenhart's findings.
"When I was engaged I
thought I would back down on
my career until my boyfriend
got his on track," said Gina
Fatout, a government major at
New Mexico State University
who added her engagement had
been broken off.
"I think it happens a lot
because of the way we (female
college students) were raised,"
Fatout said.
Mills, a senior, has a few
leads. He knows that she went
to an all-girls Catholic high
school in Philadelphia, and
when they met she told him she
planned to apply to Harvard.
Also, Meg's friend, Jennifer,
was definitely attending Harvard.
The ship they met on was the
Cunard Countess.
To get the addresses, Mills
had an acquaintance at Harvard
get him a copy of the school
directory. Unfortunately, he got
the Harvard employees directory
rather than the undergraduate
phone book, the more likely
source for the listing of his
long-lost love.
Meanwhile, Mills is waiting
to hear from Meg, wherever she
maybe.
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New Slater film fails
Poorly written script misses the point
by Floyd J. Csir
Collegian Staff Writer
Question: What do you get
when a teenager, recently
transplanted to Arizona, rigs a
ham radio and broadcasts punk
music, carnal noises and other
worthless soliloquies?
Answer: Pump Up The
Volume.
Sounds confusing, doesn't it?
Christian Slater, the casual
murderer in Heathers, portrays
Happy Harry Hard-On, a sex
starved cynic who airs his
complaints about high school,
guidance counselors and parents.
Harry is distraught over
leaving his friends on the East
Coast and doesn't want to fit in.
He doesn't know how to talk to
people face-to-face, so pirate
radio is his only outlet.
Eventually, as more students
sympathize with Harry and his
sage advice, students feel free to
vandalize and to run around like
chickens without heads.
"How far will you go to
disgust the insatiable Happy
Harry Hard-On?", quips Slater
and the teenage "malcontents,"
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Although the first third of
the movie does manage to break
in some earnest attempts at
compassion for individuality and
nonconformity, the rest of the
movie doesn't expand on this
base.
Although certain injustices
are brought out by Harry and the
students, these crimes by the
Establishment (the principal
expelling students with low
The movie centers
around the writer's
misconception of
teenage behavior.
SAT scores) are incidental.
These teenagers just want an
excuse to throw picnic tables
and stick tongues out at news
cameras. This rehash is pretty
lame and BORING.
It was inevitable, in this
time of 2 Live Crew and Judas
Priest controversies, that a
movie would try to capitalize on
First Amendment abuse.
Thursday, September 20,1990
Today's MTV teenager,
however, is not as militant and
motivated as those in the 60's.
This nation is mostly
apathetic, and teenagers are more
apt to indifference due to a
television coma. Director and
writer Allan Moyle must be
trapped in a 60's mentality and,
however justified, his
interpretation of our times
doesn't entertain well.
Certainly it is important for
some movies to mirror society's
problems, much like Casualties
of War, but Pump Up the
Volume force feeds the social
effects and cheapens any
entertainment value for the
audience. There isn't much
resemblance to the mind set of
1990 America, and this fact is
the most annoying because the
whole movie is centered around
the writer's misconception of
teenage behavior.
Pump appears to draw
inspiration from such
Hollywood mega-hits such as
Rock ’N Roll High School and
National Lampoon’s Reunion.
This is unfortunate because
Pump had potential for social
impact and amusement.
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