European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A swing Back to Liberal arts in America by Elizabeth m. Fowler new York times t a time when the world is becoming Mote technically oriented there appears to be growing support in the United Statos Tor a swing Bach to the Liberal arts an interesting Paradox Tor 0b seekers for years american Liberal arts professors have bewailed Tho decline in Liberal aria majors. Small departments such As classics philosophy and anthropology have been dropped at some colleges other colleges have dismissed or re direct Many Liberal ruts professors yet top management notably Al the american Telephone and Telegraph co and the International business machines corp and a few alter major companies have supported the Liberal arts cause insisting thai Many of their promo Ablo top managers need such a Broad background however the message has been slow to filter Down o personnel directors who have preferred hiring technically trained new graduates. Also an Ever increasing number of students have opted for engineering and other scientific majors. Now some unusual spokesmen Lor Liberal arts Are making themselves heard possibly an indicator that the pendulum is swinging Back.  Parker professor of management at Stanford University s graduate business school commented recently that the Well prepared manager of the next generation will simply need More than the nation s graduate schools of business can  those needs can Best be addressed in the Liberal arts he said pointing out that the challenges lot the future include the internationalization of business. Managers m Ihen exl Century simply must understand Loreign cultures languages politics and business practices he added. At the same Lime the message is coming from another Stanford Bailiwick James Gibbons Dean of engineering recently said that most important issues had qualitative and subjective dimensions Best approached through studies of literature. History Art and social sciences he insisted int this is As True for leadership in engineering As it is for leadership in Public  i sure Hope there is a trend Back to the Liberal arts William j Lawrence professor of economics Al the graduate business school at Pace University in new Vork. Said "1 can do much More with students who have a Good Basic knowledge of English literature and history. Students who have no sense of history or literature Are missing so Mush those who do can be More creative and objective " though he has no data Lor proof he thinks that Liberal arts students do better in the Job Market ultimately than those More narrowly trained such As computer science majors and engineers he thinks building up a Liberal arts background should be done Early at the undergraduate level. At age 25 to 35, it is hard to teach student s to communicate Well he said. He worries too. About their ability to be creatively objective when faced with problem solving perhaps the most practical major for a Liberal arts Erma Bombeck some universities Are placing More emphasis on Liberal an requirement. Student headed for business a economics a department that usually includes courses in statistics labor relations economic history business Law and finance. Thaddeus Seymour the new president of Rollins College l once it s on Wear new on vacations the first Day of school your wedding Day. Ano if you re in an Page 16 the stars Ano stripes Accident or something unspeakable will happen to  for years Bra was pronounced with a whisper., especially those with training wheels on Sham. Even in commercials live models were never used. Bras were displayed Only on plastic forms that never slouched or had moles in fact pitch women used to have a Pointer that touched upon ail the advantages like the one teachers used when diagramming a sentence i can t remember the exact year they started to trash underwear. It seems like one minute we were running around in pyjamas with feet in them and the next we were wearing briefs around our hips that had a hand imprinted in lace Over the Hipbone. On soaps lingerie replaced House dresses. On prime Lune in was a uniform lingerie became the Workhorse Solo speak of the fashion Industry. I am on a Mai tag is Tor a catalogue of lingerie hat leaves nothing to the monday february 2, 19b7 imagination mailman enter a lottery to see who gets to deliver my route. There is Page after Page of pouty models staring me right in the Eye wearing mile band aids of Satin and lace and daring me to pass out. I have dressed turkeys in More than they have on it takes All the con Irol i have not to ask who would Ever see them in those outfits recently the futuristic society predicted that in another 10 years we will return to a victorian society where women Are paragons of purity modesty and decorum. It will be a Lime when Only wenches will have cleavages and you will know the Belle watling by what time of Day they put on their Negligee. I Don l know what will happen to the Bra museum. Will it have a place alongside the metropolitan in new Vork or the space museum in Washington or will it struggle Between peaks and valleys of social acceptance i did t say that did i