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Understaffed Office

The Placement Officer feels that, with all its
concerns, his office is understaffed and has a
poor operating budget. He said, "This is the
chronic ill of all placement offices." He noted,
however, that the situation was recently
improved by a doubling of the Placement
Office's operating budget.

Clearly the Placement Office faces a large
number of problems: student procrastination, a
previously passive policy, a tight employment
market, the draft, and a restrictive budget. But,
surprisingly, protests against Dow Chemical
Corporation and other businesses are not
problems.