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LOS ANGELES Fewer college
freshmen plan careers in computers
or engineering than a year ago, and
the number who consider it very
important to make a lot of money
decreased for the first time in 15
years, a new study says.
And while business remained the
most popular major, students are
slowly returning to careers in educa
tion as a nationwide baby boomlet
creates a teacher shortage a tur
nabout from a decade earlier, when
there were more teachers than jobs
and few people were entering the
field, the study found.
The study also found that while the
majority of the freshmen still con
sider themselves middle-of-the-road
politically, they have traditionally
liberal views on such issues as disar
mament, military spending, taxes,
pollution and abortion.
The 164-page report released today
was compiled by the Cooperative
Institutional Research Program. It
was sponsored by the American
Council on Education and the Univer
sity of California at Los Angeles grad
uate school of education.
The study was based on surveys of
192,453 students, or a little more
than 1 percent of the fall 1985 fresh
man class of 1.66 million at 365 col
leges and universities.
One of the most surprising discov
eries was the drop in interest in
computer and engineering fields.
"This declining interest in techno
logical careers stands in stark con
trast to the growing national concern
for increased technological training
and technological capacity in the
American workforce," the report said.
Only 4.4 percent of the freshmen
indicated they intend to pursue
careers as computer programmers or
analysts, down from 6.1 percent in
1984 and a high of 8.8 percent in
1982.
In engineering, the drop was less
severe, declining to 10 percent in
1985 from 10.4 percent the previous
year and a peak of 12 percent in 1982.
Interest in the biological and phys
ical sciences also waned slightly,
while the humanities gained. Busi
ness remained the most popular
major with 24.8 percent, up from 24
percent a year earlier and 21.3 per
cent in 1980.
The survey found 6.2 percent
planned on teaching careers, com
pared to 5.5 percent in 1984 and an
all-time low of 4.7 percent in 1982.
The highest level was 23.5 percent in
1968.
The number of students indicating
it was essential or very important to
be financially well off declined
slightly to 70.9 percent, reversing 15
years of increases.
In 1984, the percentage was 71.2
percent. But the new rate still
remained far above the record 1970
low of about 39 percent.
On other issues, the study found:
O 56.7 percent of the students
consider themselves political middle-of-the-roaders,
down from 57.4 per
cent in 1984 and a peak of 60.3 per
cent in 1983.
O 28.6 percent favor more defense
spending, compared to 32.5 percent a
year earlier and 38.8 percent in 1982.
O Two-thirds think the govern
ment should do more to promote
disarmament.
O 73.3 percent think the wealthy
should pay more taxes, up from 69.7
percent in 1984 and reversing a
decline that began in 1976.
78 percent think the govern
ment isn't doing enough to control
pollution, up slightly from previous
years.
O 54.9 percent support legalized
abortion, an increase of about 1 per
cent from the previous year.
Animal drugs endanger public
WASHINGTON - The Food and
Drug Administration hasn't protected
consumers from exposure to dangerous
drugs given to animals that could turn
up in meat, milk and poultry, a House
committee charged Sunday in a new
report.
The House Government Operations
Committee said the FDA has lost sight
of its mission to protect the public
from the residues of veterinary drugs.
"FDA has consistently disregarded
its responsibility for assuring the
safety of drugs used in food-producing
animals," said Rep. Ted Weiss, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the panel's subcommittee
on human resources, in releasing the
report.
The committee's report was based
on two days of congressional hearings
last summer at which FDA officials
conceded that only a small percentage
of the estimated 20,000 animal drugs
on the market had been approved by
the agency.
Dr. Lester Crawford, then head of the
FDA's center for veterinary medicine,
told Weiss' subcommittee that the
agency has approved only about 2,500
drugs.
"We're not able to monitor for all the
(drug) products that might be used,"
Crawford testified. While federal law
requires such monitoring, Crawford
said the situation "is not completely
under control and never has been. We
do the best we can."
Nevertheless, the House committee
said in its report that testimony before
the panel shows:
O Ninety percent or more of the
new animal drugs on the market have
not been approved by the FDA as safe
and effective, although such a finding
is required by law.
O Drugs that have been approved
by the FDA often were approved years
ago using safety standards now consi
dered inadequate. Yet, the committee
said, the FDA in 1982 cancelled a pro
gram to review these drugs under mod
ern safety standards.
Iranians board U.S. .merchant chip
WASHINGTON Armed Iranian navy sailors searching for war goods
bound for Iraq on Sunday boarded an American merchant ship sailing in
international waters just outside the Persian Gulf, the State Department
There were no injuries or loss of property during the two-hour search of
the President Taylor, the first U.S. flag ship to be stopped by Iran, which
has been fighting a five-year war with neighboring Iraq, said department
spokesman Bruce Ammerman.
After the search, the bulk cargo ship owned by the American President
Lines, Ltd., proceeded to the port of Fujaira, located on the Gulf of Omaha
in the United Arab Emirates, Ammerman said.
Columbia finally launched
SPACE CENTER, Houston Shuttle Columbia and its seven-man crew
soared smoothly into orbit Sunday, overcoming a record number of false
starts, and then sent the world's most powerful commercial communica
tions satellite spinning offinto space.
Columbia, kept earthbound through seven launch delays since Dec 18,
climbed flawlessly through a blue Florida sky from the Kennedy Space
Center and left a smoke trail tinged crimson and white by the rising sun.
It was the first of 1 5 shuttle launches scheduled in 1 986, expected to be
the nation's busiest year in space.
Heart disease costs climbing
SARASOTA, Fla. Threatment of heart and circulatory disease, by far
the country's main cause of death, will cost an estimated $78.6 billion this
year, the American Heart Association said Sunday.
The estimate equals about $325 for every man, woman snd child in the
United States. The costs include $48,2 billion for hospital &nd nursing
home services, $13.6 billion for lost work time due to disability, $11.8
billion for doctor bills and $5 billion for medicines.
list year, the association estimated these diseases, which include
heart attacks, high blood pressure and strokes, cost $72.1 billion,
UNO opens parking garcg
OMAHA University of Nebraska-Omaha students will have fewer
parking problems today when a new three-level parking garage and two
new surfaced lots open on campus, creating 2,000 more parking spaces.
Assistant director of uiversity relations Tim Fitzgerald said studies
revealed a need for 6,000 parking stalls to take care of everybody on the
campus. He said the new spaces bring to 4,000 the number of parking
stalls now available at UNO.
Reagan wages war on crime
WASHINGTON President Reagan was in print as usual Sunday, but
this time under his own byline, declaring in a magazine article on
organized crime that "for the first time in our history, we finally have the
mob on the run."
In an article in The New York Times Magazine, the president said that
''like all too many Americans, I've seen the mob at work." He said his
concern with orgnanized crime stemmed from his days as an actor when
mobsters "moved in on the motion picture industry."
Moving on to his presidency of the United States, Reagan wrote, "There
will be no detente with the mob. It's war to the end. We mean to cripple
their organization."
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