European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 30, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 Are Yues doomed by Steven Bredice United press International y puppies May be doomed to extinction according to College admissions officials i the yen for an enriching education an not just a diploma that can be swapped fora High paying Job continues among College freshmen. At Boston University officials Are noticing More interest in Liberal arts and less interest in technological and professionally oriented Fields admissions director Anthony pallet says. Although it s too Early to Tell whether the seeds of a new trend have been sown this year s Batch of applications Are different than those of previous years. Pallet said. I think the Yuppie generation is dying out from the kids we re seeing pallet said referring to the new class of Young Urban professionals who Are widely perceived As America s upwardly Mobile status conscious elite. Phillip Smith admissions director at Williams College a Small highly selective school outside Boston agreed with pallet s assessment. I sense a shift away from immediate career gratification he said. I feel that the National trend in the past year or so has been toward the broadly based programs and away from the technical professionally oriented  moreover pallet and Smith Boh ony they re seeing More applicants with Strong social Bolinas which they re willing to put into practice As volunteers in nursing Homes hospitals and welfare agencies. And Public service is not a Yuppie  Smith said. If Yuppie equals selfish this is the other extreme " for his part. Pallet sees a resurgence in the kind of social consciousness that thrived in the 1960s and Lay dormant in the 1970s. For the last 10 years almost it s been a very me  he said. We re beginning to see a change in that. We re beginning to see an interest in causes again which we Haven t seen for a Long time. It seems to be correlating with what s been happening with the Economy pallet said. Pallet who has overseen Boston University s admissions process Lor a decade said applicants during the economic recession of the mid-1970s were worried about making Money after their University careers. When the Economy turned around applicants seemed less inhibited about studying literature languages and the classics while interest in Law Medicine and the sciences waned. Smith said he s seen a corresponding change in employers expectations. I think oddly enough that the strongest devotees of the i Betel arts today tend to be the , executives which is interesting from out  Smith snid. Along with the shift in the applicants academic interests pallet sees a shift in their social interests. In 1967. During Pallett s first month with the University of Chicago s admissions department a group of Black students took Over his office to protest what they saw As a discriminatory admissions policy. Pallet said he has t seen much of thai kind of activism in the past decade but that judging by their applications Boston University s incoming class is socially conscientious. While today s typical 18-year-old is still con Puter crazy and not ashamed to admit enjoying a Good Best seller he or she is also showing renewed interest in issues like nuclear weapons and apartheid. Incoming freshmen Are also dressing better pallet sums up the always changing often contradictory portrait of America s newest College kids with an anecdote about an applicant who showed up outside an admissions interviewer s Ollice in the Back of a limousine. The casually dressed Young Man plastered some newspapers against the car s windows and emerged a few minutes later wearing a suit. Now that would t have happened a few Yeats  pallet said. He would have come in  in inns " . 01 in. Yah univ Talty can up in new Hoven Conn. Colage odmi., official a  or. ,./nfl o . In today. Tud it Erma Bombeck it was rather ironic that on my 36th-Weddinganniversary, i flipped open the Glove compartment and out fell a pair of pantyhose still in the  were size a. Translation they would thave fit under my diaper at three months i casually mentioned this to my husband. I Hope this Means you Rob supermarkets in your spare  he acted surprised of course and said a have no idea who they belong to or How they got  it was the stuff of which a million movies have been made. The first stage is Shock. Why would a Man who hates to shop suddenly go on tha prowl and How Many women would you find who could stand the smell of cinnamon Apple Spray every Lime to gets the car washed. The second stage was anger. I gave that Man the Best years of my life. It was the year he Tell apart. His Back went out. His eyes went bad his hair receded and he could t finish a sentence without me. But i Hung in there with him. Now that we were at the Good limes of our lives where we did t have to do anything but show up he decided to Trade up. The third stage is usually retaliation but frankly i did t have the underwear or the body Lor anything extramarital so i proceeded right on to retribution. Ii he could t give me a reasonable explanation Lor this one size lits All apparition then he would have to pay. I could either play it like Jill Clayburgh and split or june Allyson who Hung around looking pained. I decided on june. I d hold my head up High with just a quiver in my Chin As i announced i had decided to ride out the storm and give him another Chance to make a fool out of himself. In the meantime he had custody of the dog the cars the kids problems and the creditors. Could my affection and self respect be bought you bet your Sweet Saks filth Avenue it could. I would embark on a new career shopping. Ii a size a barely nude seam less was what he wanted that s what Tio d get but it would Cost him. I d have to go to a spa have pedicures manicures facials and skin treatments to replace All the oils in my body that had Burnt Oil during the years of marriage and child rearing. The exhausting part was keeping the guilt alive. At Church when my husband did t go to communion i leaned Over and said. Has this anything to do with the size a pantyhose when he was ill one Day and had no appetite. I casually mentioned. Feed a tramp. Starve a  Allol it came to an end last week when our daughter came in and saw the pantyhose package which i had worked into a Centrepiece at the table. So this is where i left  she said. My husband s head shot up. Remember the Day i borrowed your car. Dad i sprung a run and bought an extra  for the first time since the discovery i cried. Why Don l you want your Mother to have a fur coat c lot an Geltl time Syndicate