But the overall number of completed application for admission to the class of '91 dropped to 12,069 from last year's 12,244 applicants. The largest applicant pool ever was 12,718 who applied to the class of '88 the paper reported.
The number of women applicants to the class of '91, which made up 41.5 percent of the poor beats the previous high of 39.1 percent who applied to the class of '89, according to The Daily Princetonian.
Officials at Princeton have taken credit for the recent increase. "We attempted to recruit women energetically this fall, and from the increased female applicant numbers one could conclude that the increase is due to our recruitment efforts," Princeton's Dean of Admission Anthony Cummings told the campus daily. GEORGETOWN
Divestment Had Little Impact, Treasurer Says
Four months after Georgetown University decided on a policy of divestment from South Africa-linked companies, the effects of the approximately $17 million divestment from the $175 million endowment remain disputed.
Although campus activists initially hailed the university's decision as a moral victory against the injustices of apartheid, the Georgetown administrator responsible for the endowment, Vice President and Treasurer George R. Houston said he thought the university's divestment had only a symbolic importance.
Divested funds will be reinvested to create a portfolio free of South African ties without sustaining severe losses in the rate of return, Houston told The Hoya.
A boycott of products from controversial companies would have a greater effect than divestment, Houston told the paper, but he questioned whether students would be willing to make the sacrifice.
"Would [students] give up drinking Coca-Cola and driving General Motors car? Many of them I saw get in a General Motors car and drive off the campus after they'd been complaining about GM in South Africa," Houston said. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Students Win Struggle To Replace Renowned Maze
Officials at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have agreed to student demands to replace the Maze, a beloved labyrinth of chain-link fence on the outskirts of the campus.
In September of last year, the University decided to tear down the nine-year-old sculpture after artist Richard Fleischner, who presented the Maze to the University in 1978, expressed dismay at the condition of his work during a campus visit.
The artist proposed repairs to the sagging fences that would total $50,000, too much for the UMass administration, which decided to destroy the structure instead of rebuilding it.
But student opposition to demolishing the structure was unexpectedly strong. Students Joel Rabinowitz and Joseph Demeo, cofounders of the "Save the Maze Coalition," gathered approximately 2500 signatures in a petition drive, and then placed the issue on a student referendum in which 90 percent of those surveyed supported keeping the maze.
In response to the students' wishes, UMass will tear down the old structure and replace it with a new maze designed by a UMass student chosen by competition.
"Almost every student has gone through the maze at least once during his four year at UMass," said Rabinowitz. "It's become a tradition," he said.