'Aggressive Approach'
To combat the constricted employment
market Mr. Simpson advocates an "aggressive
approach" to career and college placement.
This entails talking with business representatives,
and making the College Placement Manual
and other volumes of information available to
students.
Graduates in the United States face more
than an increasingly competitive world; they
face the draft. The Placement Office offers
counseling about the draft and realizes the great
impact that the draft can have on post-graduate
decisions. Last year, for example, 27% of the
graduating class went on to graduate school, a
drop from the previous year. Mr. Simpson
accredited the drop to the draft. He claimed
that many students are afraid to go to graduate
school, knowing well that on any given day
they can be called up for military service.
Instead, they seek jobs which offer draft
deferment, like teaching.
